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strictly necessary, but it is satisactory to strangers, and it silences 

 those low caA'ilers who are ready at least to affect to discredit re- 

 sults which they lack both enterprise and skill to bring about. 



Mr. R. has reared about 100 per cent of lambs the present 

 season, which, taking into consideration the number of ewes under 

 proper breeding age, was certainly quite unusual ; a fact which 

 speaks well of the skill and mode of luanagement. But one Pau- 

 lar lamb perished. All are indelibly numbered on the day of their 

 birth according to Von Thaer's method, and their pedigree re- 

 corded. 



So much for the sheep, and as this seems to be a proper place 

 for closing this letter, I now subscribe myself, 



Yours, &c. E. 



IV. Farm and farming of Mr. Hopkins. 



Auburn, May 30, 1843. 



My Dear Friend — It was my design when I came to this place 

 to have called at once on our friend Mr. Sherwood, the formeii 

 great lull' i Admiral of New-York, for the purpose of seeing his 

 fine stock of cattle and sheep ; but I found he was absent on i 

 tour to the west. I must therefore wait for another opportunity. 



But now, as cattle and sheep cannot form the subject of m} 

 letter, I will speak of Auburn, though I do not expect to giv( 

 you much information of the place, which is not already in youi 

 possession. Auburn is located about centrally between Albanj 

 and Buffalo, on the great railroad thoroughfare ; it is nine mile; 

 east of Cayuga Bridge, at the termination of steamboat naviga 

 tion of Cayuga lake, and which opens a communication south, o. 

 forty miles, and through an excellent farming country. Its locatioi 

 though inland, is highly advantageous, whether we regard it as ; 

 place for business or social intercourse. But what gives Auburr 

 superior advantages for business, is the water power upon the 

 outlet of Owasco lake, which passes directly through the village' 

 The creek issuing from this lake descends rapidly five or six miles 

 or to be more particular, it falls in fourteen miles — that is, fron 

 Auburn to the canal — two hundred feet, and between seventy-fiv( 

 and one hundred between Auburn and the lake. By this descent i 



