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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



running time was eleven days shorter tliau that of their 

 fastest steamer, and that we had anchored in their 

 harbor without as much as a screw being loose, or 

 even a chip being knocked off the outside, I am told 

 they went quite crazy; they at once took us to their 

 arms, and gave us a magnificent dinner (which cost 



more of the energy and spirit of the last half of the 

 nineteenth century, or expect to be left far behind 

 American commerce, which already imports about 

 eighty miUion pounds of wool in cloths and other 

 goods, a year, and twenty-one million pounds in the 

 raw material. 



two thousand dollars). Even the English speak of us 

 with praise. Your obedient servant, 



" D. D. Porter." 



Such enterprise is almost omnipotent; and our 

 staid wool-growing friends must wake up and imbibe 



THE STUDY OF THE CALENDAR— JULY 



Every farmer, and every farmer's sons and daugh- 

 ters, should be well posted in the history of each of 

 the twelve months of the Calendar. If they were 

 asked to state the difference between the " Old Style " 



