286 QUARTERLY JOURNAL 



FARMERS' MISCELLANY. 



HUSBANDRY OF CENTRAL NEW-YORK. 



IN A SERIES OF LETTERS TO JOHN KOON, ESQ., OF ALBANY. 



Letter L 



Utica, September 12, 1845. 

 My Dear Friend — As you was so kind as to express an interest 

 in the matters comnnunicated in my former letters, I am induced to 

 resume my pen, and I have hopes that I may still maintain a favor- 

 able position in your estimation. Should I succeed, I shall feel some 

 pride in my success ; inasmuch as I know that you are a judge of 

 merit, and will neither suffer yourself to be deceived by appearances 

 merely, nor bestow your approbation upon an unworthy object. 



On recurring to my former letters, it will be seen that I took 

 rather a v«ide range in the selection of subjects ; and as you have 

 not intimated to me that this was an objectionable feature in them, 

 I shall not now confine my observations to what might be considered 

 a narrow compass. The structure of our hills and vallies, considered 

 with reference to agriculture ; the different kinds of crops, soils and 

 their adaptations ; cows, hogs and sheep, with many other similar 

 subjects, are interesting matters for the consideration of farmers. 

 The latter, in particular, interest me at the present time ; and as 

 people are very apt to think that whatever interests themselves must 

 also interest others, so I find that I am thinking that sheep too must 

 be uppermost in your mind. 1 do not expect, however, that you will 

 fall in with all of my views ; for you know that I am sometimes 

 charged with heterodoxy, and especially do I know that you will 

 be startled when I attempt to show that Saxon sheep do not wear 

 fleeces of a finer kind than the merinoes. You will, without doubt, 



