318 HISTORY OF OHIO. 



THE EAISrS'G OF HOGS, HORSES AXD CATTLE. 



In these branches of a farmer's business, our people have 

 very well succeeded. In a country which produces so easily 

 and so abundantly, all tlie grains and grasses, on which such 

 animals subsist — where there is so little winter for which to 

 provide — where the snow lies only a few days, at a time, and 

 then is not over three or four inches in depth, all the domes- 

 tic animals can be supported with ease, on the abundance of 

 food which this country furnishes. Formerly, vast droves of 

 hogs were driven every year over the mountains, but since 

 our canals are made — since the steam boat moves on the Ohio, 

 Mississippi and the lake, our people kill their hogs at home, 

 salt them and carry them off in barrels, either to New Or- 

 leans, or to Cleveland, thence, to Montreal and Quebec, or 

 to New York. Horses are still sent off in droves to market* 

 either to the east or to the south. 



So of our cattle, they are fattened and driven, sometimes, 

 all the way to Boston to market. The value of all these ex- 

 ports we do not know, nor have we the means of knowing, 

 but it amounts to millions of dollars annually, for our cattle, 

 hogs, horses, mules and sheep. Great pains have been taken 

 to improve the breeds of all these animals, and companies 

 have repeatedly sent all the way to England to get belter 

 hogs, horses and cattle. The evident improvement of the 

 whole breed, shows that those who have done these things, are 

 public benefactors. 



THE STATE OF THE PRESS. 



In 1435, John Gutenburgh of Mentz, was carrying on a law 

 suit, in Strasburgh, with a burgher of the place last mention- 

 ed, one Drizen, about a copying machine, which Gutenburgh 

 had invented. 



That copying machine was a prixtiivg press, which has 

 done more for mankind than any other invention. By this 

 machine of Gutenburgh's, mind can move minds, and render 



