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The appearance of a farmer's house and barn is an excellent indi- 

 cation of his thrift. 



In the neighborhood of Syracuse, where near five millions of bush- 

 els of salt is made annually, and in the neighborhood of Oswego^ 

 where flour is turned from the mills in great abundance, the farmers 

 are collecting their timber for barrels, and a cooper's shop is to be 

 seen near every farm house where the timber from the farm is made 

 into barrels, and the plank road is used to transport them over to a 

 market. 



Farmers' sons in these districts are good young men; they are in- 

 dustrious and prospei'ous. Here are good dairies too, and farmers^ 

 daughters can well afford to wear silks and satins, for they earn the 

 clothes they wear. 



I called at the house of a wealthy farmer in Manlius, in Onondaga 

 county, Mr Austin Smith, a middle-aged man, who has made him- 

 self rich by his industry and economy. He earned the money with 

 his own hands to buy his farm, and then worked it himself, and from 

 the labor of his own hands improved it. I found on each side of the 

 road leading through his farm a row of sugar maple, a very thrifty 

 growth. Mr. Smith informed me that he had sold in one year $2,800 

 worth of produce from his farm, from which he had a nett gain of 

 $1,700. 



I called at his house to make inquiry about the geology of his dis- 

 trict, and he insisted on my stopping under his hospitable roof. I 

 found his residence a pleasant home, everything desirable set before 

 me that could be found in the most splendid mansion in the great 

 metropolis of the State. 



It was highly gratifying to find here such a beautiful illustration of 

 the great value of industry and economy. 



Mr. Smith, when a young man, hired out to an industrious farmer 

 by the month, and his earnings in this, by some considered humble 

 station, were the germ of his future fortune. 



In one of my tours I visited the deep boring at Lockpit, near 

 Clyde, and on the great Erie canal. This well has been sunk to the 

 depth of 401 feet, and water obtained from it of full saturation. 1 



