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ropean culture. In addition to this, the ])ecuhar 

 constitution of our climate, the intense heat and 

 dryness of our summer months, enables us to grow 

 over the whole extent of our countrjA that invalua- 

 ble plant, the Indian corn, which can be grown in 

 perfection in but a small part of Europe, and in a 

 large part of it, including the British islands, not at 

 all. The heat and dryness of our summer months, 

 however, while they give us our corn, are not with- 

 out their disadvantages in some other respects ; and, 

 as they render other cultivated crops liable at times 

 to suffer with drought, they will probably have the 

 effectof circumscribing the turnip-culture among us, 

 and, from the experiments which have been made, 

 would seem to forbid the existence of line- fences 

 or hedges, at least from the same plants that con- 

 stitute the numerous and beautiful ones of Great 

 Britain. 



"While our grains and grasses have been derived 

 from abroad, our domestic animals have originated 

 from the same source. Our horses, cattle, sheep, 

 and swine are of European pai-entage, uniting and 

 blending all the known varieties of each race in in- 

 extricable confusion. As theirs have improved, so 

 have ours, though perhaps in a less degree ; but 

 the continual importation of animals from England 

 to this country has at least given us representatives 

 of every variety of her breeds, and of every shade 

 ot blood she can boast. The astonishing improve- 

 ment made in breeding cattle in England, and which 

 have already been alluded to, have not been without 

 their influence on our enterprising farmers, and great 

 numbers of the choicest animals that country could 

 boast have found their way to our country. The 

 btjautiful Short Horns and Devons, the Leicesters 

 and South Downs, the Cheshire and the Berkshire 

 pigs, have all beon largely imported, and are already 

 exercising a vast influence on the general character 

 of our animals. Ohio and Kentucky have done much 



