man charged lue five dollars for a very sorry looking 

 horse and a dilapidated buggy whose years might have 

 equaled those of the " Deacon's one horse shay." Tlie 

 charge for a pair of similar looking animals and a similar 

 looking wagon I found to be ten dollars. Such modesty 

 is rare. 



We have been here a week, and, while there are 

 three livery stables, all doing a rushing trade, we have 



ncv(.'r l)een able to 

 see the proprietor 

 of one of them to 

 know whether the 

 charges exacted 

 from us are war- 

 ranted or not, as 

 each of lliem seems 

 to be more inter- 

 ested in shooting 

 or horse racing than in looking after his lousiness. 



This is trul\- a wonderful belt of country, the most 

 fertile we have yet seen. The presbyterian minister liere 

 (lately preaching at Rnlledge, Pa. ) tells us thai ihc soil 

 in places is full\- fifteen feet deep and of the richest black 

 loam. The wheat averages over thirty bushels to the 

 acre and weighs sixty-five to sixty-six ])oun(ls to the 

 bushel. Tliey make no rotation in planting. It is wheat 

 and wheat year after year. We saw a field just harvested 

 that produced t]iirty-tw(j busliels to the acre which had 

 been Sdwn with wlieat for twent\--three consecutive years, 

 and another field of forty acres that last year had not been 

 sown. l)Ut simply ploughed niuler, with tlie previous 



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PULLING THE CAS ! O.tR SHALLOW WATER. 



