134} Information as to Meadows and Hay 



their posterity. Formidable as this obstacle 

 may be, yet, as I mentioned in a former letter, 

 it is of a mdral nature, and consequently admits 

 of removal. 



Many of the meadows we have seen this day 

 abound so much with florin, that I am per- 

 suaded, with little labor, they might be ren- 

 dered exclusively redundant of that herbage. 



Wishing to obtain some information respect- 

 ing the value and method of treating their 

 meadows, I was induced to stop at a very de- 

 cent cabin. The proprietor was about eighty 

 years of age, and had, by great industry and 

 care in his early days, been enabled to purchase 

 some life leases, which, when bought, were of 

 trifling value. His length of years, and change 

 of times, had made him " passing rich." He 

 informed me, with great satisfaction, that he 

 had settled two sons in stone houses, about a 

 mile from him. After patiently hearing his 

 Sjtory, he proceeded to answer my questions. 

 The meadows, he said, had been mown, time 

 out of mind, for hay, and had never failed of 

 producing good crops. The hay was such as 

 the bog always produced, but he knew nothing 

 about florin. His cabin was comfortable ; he 

 lamented his dame was not at home, adding, 



