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fanner — does miicli of his work himself — is almost constantly 

 with or near those whom he occasionally employs to assist him — 

 his farm is in excellent oi-der, and ever has been — it lies about 

 four miles southwest of Newark — as fine grain, wheat, rye, In- 

 dian ■corn and grass as I have ever seen growing anywhere — 

 wheat, I should think, would produce from twenty-five to thirty 

 bushels an acre. I speak within bounds — stem healthy, very 

 plump and promising weight, hardly ripe. His rye he was cut- 

 ting, and no man need swing a cradle through finer — thick and 

 tall on the ground — some of the stems nearly or quite six feet — 

 h^ads long and well stored with the best berry — this was easily 

 proved by taking a bunch in the hand and feeling its weight. 

 Or ass, of the same character, and principally timothy — some of 

 this cut and made, and some standing — a few spears pulled more 

 than five feet in length — heads of some twelve inches long, and 

 which I here exhibit to the club He has fine orchards on his 

 farm, and stands, at Newark, and elsewhere, high for the excel- 

 lence of his cider in bottles or draught, and always commands 

 the highest price. This season the trees do not look as healthy 

 and promising for fruit as I have seea them — the apples, many 

 of them, are shrivelled and gnarled, plainly showing assaults from 

 that growing evil among us, insects, many leaves of the trees 

 dead and dropping off. I saw indications of aphides, or plant 

 lice, and some otlier insects^ still, there may be a tolerable crop. 

 I brought one with me, and here present it, called the ox apple. 

 When growing, healthy and ripe, it is of the largest class, and 

 fine flavor, good for cooking, fair, smooth, outside. This is one 

 of the largest I could get ; its surface, you see, is knotty and 

 rough ; and on being cut open, insects were found in it. There is 

 a beautiful vale running through a part of this farm ; its sides and 

 bottom are level, ornamented with some of the most useful forest 

 trees, rich in their foliage, and of the most graceful form; the 

 ash, Vt'hite wood, elm, oak and hickory ; the sides and bottom also 

 covered with the richest verdure. A small stream runs through 

 it, fed, partly, by a copious spring in the vale, bursting out from 

 the sides of the latter, and boiling up from tlie bottom in consid- 

 erable volumes, and partly from the drain of the valley, as it 

 passes into the interior above and forms a junction with the stream 

 issuing from the spring, and a few yards below it. The gentle- 

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