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My usual route is from South Bloomfield ; first to Zanes?ille, 

 crossing the Ohio at Elizabeth town, Virginia ; thence to Bedford, 

 Pennsylvania ; thence to Harrisburgh ; and thence to Easton and 

 Morristown, and to Hoboken. But one-half of the Ohio cattle 

 for New- York market, come from Harrisburgh to Lancaster ; 

 thence to Philadelphia ; to Trenton, Brunswick ; then by steam- 

 boat to New-York, or cars to Jersey City. 



The northern route from Ohio to Boston, and New- York mar- 

 ket is from Columbus to Vernon, and to Worcester to Warren, 

 and to Meadville, Pennsylvania, to Jamestown, Chautauque Lake, 

 New-York ; to Ellicotsville, Angelica, Bath, Ithaca, Prattsville, 

 Catskill ; thence to New-York by steamboat ; but the recent 

 route is opened from Bath to Corning, and thence by the Erie 

 Eailroad to Piermont, in railroad cars. 



The first three classes of purchasers of cattle, generally put 

 their cattle on a grass feed for spring, summer and fall, and in 

 the winter feed them with hay; but seldom shelter the cattle in 

 the southern part of Ohio at any time. Some persons give corn 

 to the two and three years old cattle in the winter and spring to 

 make them take grazing well for the summer. 



We drove 600 head of cattle and more from Bloomfield to 

 New-York last year, and the expense run from seven to sixteen 

 dollars per head; hogs that have been fed with cattle, are driven 

 to market with the cattle and follow the drive, feed in the same 

 manner as on the feeding grounds. Hogs are considered a clear 

 gain, and constitute the principal profit of feeding when cattle 

 are dull and corn is high. 



Corn is worth 35 cents a bushel this season in Ohio ; the gener- 

 al average price has been for ten years past, from 12 to 30 cents 

 per bushel. 



When we can get 25 cents a bushel for our corn fed to the cat- 

 tle, and the price which our droves of hogs bring in New- York 

 market, we get fair pay for the expenses of feeding, but nothing 

 more. 



