AGRICULTURAL IMUSEt^M SS 



power of the proprietors to make, can keep pace with 

 the still more rapid increase in the population of the Dis« 

 trict. 



Each owner of such land will he able to calculate for 

 himself the expencc of laying it down in grass— the 

 profits will probably exceed any idea he may be able to 

 form on the subject, without some knowledge of the va 

 lue of such lands near other markets. In the neighbour- 

 hood of Philadelphia, 1 am informed, the annual rcni of 

 land of this description is from 25 to 30 dollars per acre — . 

 tlie price for the fee, three hundred to four hundred doU 

 lars — in the vicinity of New York the prices are not less 

 considerable, and around Baltimore, but little inferior. — 

 Surely this should be sufficient to excite the Proprietors 

 of low lands, near the District, to the most animated 

 exertions for their improvement — Many hundreds of acres 

 are so situated as to be capable of being converted into 

 the most valuable meadow^ at an expcnce per acre less 

 tlian annual rents near Philadelphia, 



A FARMER, 



CLERMONT MERINO SHEEP SHEARING, 



On the 15th May the sheep shearing of his Merino 

 flock was celebrated by the ilon. R. R. Livingston, at 

 bis mansion in Clermont, amidst a large concourse of 

 his fellow citizens. 



Farmers from the different districts of the State atten- 

 ded on this occasion. In addition to those who came 

 from the other counties, several gentleman from Albany 

 and New York were present, and connoiseurs from 

 4lifferent States of the Union, were observed among the I 

 company. 



More than usual interest was attached to this exhibi- 

 tion, from the consideration that Mr. Livingston is 

 the person to whom we are indebted for the first in- 

 Iroduction of the Merino sheep into the country, and 

 for the first public ^hearing in the Noi'thern States. ThQ 



