322 Notes on certain parts of the State of Ohio. 
way; but of late yee our merchants have been buying 
them, and either sell their lard and pork down the river, or 
ship it to the Atlantic states. This year two merchants of 
this place have put up thirty-three thousand pounds of lard ; 
thirty thousand pounds of pickled pork, and forty-five thou- 
sand pounds of bacon—the principal part of which was raised 
in this county, 
The price of land varies from one dollar, to fifty dollars 
per acre. The bottom lands on the Ohio are most valua- 
ble ; those on the Muskingum, next in value—the creek bot- 
toms, and rich uplands, are next in demand, and sell from 
two to four dollars per acre, as they are more or less con- 
veniently situated, in the neighbourhood of mills, public 
roads, &c. There is yet a large quantity of fine uplands in 
this county which remains unsettled. 
The prices of provisions the past year have been as fol- 
lows.—Beef $5; Pork $5; Wheat $0.75; Rye $0.50 ; In- 
dian Corn $0.33; Oats $0.33; Potatoes $0.33 ; Flour ¢3 
per hundred weight ; Butter $0.17; Cheese $0.12 1-2 ; white 
Beans $1.50 per bushel; Barley $0.40. The price of labour, 
on a farm, is about twelve dollars per month by the year. 
Mechanics? labour is generally fifty per cent. higher than in 
the eastern states. 
The Grasses, whether native or imported. 
‘The grasses in cultivation in the county of Washington are 
principally imported. ‘Those cultivated in meadows, are 
Timothy or Herds grass, Red Clover, and “ Red-top” grass. 
The pastures are occupied by native grasses, white clover, 
and two kinds of spear grass. Our lands are so full of the 
seeds of white clover, that on ploughing them, the white 
clover springs up spontaneously ; and if the clover becomes 
rooted out by the springing up of other grasses, and the 
present growth destroyed by successive years of pasturage, 
we have only to plough the landafresh, and the clover springs 
up as thick and as Juxuriantly as it did at the first ploughing. 
How long this will remain to be the fact, is yet to be proved 
by the succeeding age. The lands in some parts of Massa- 
chusetts, were formerly covered with white clover; but for 
the last twenty or thirty years it is rarely seen, in those 
places where it was once so common. I have been told by a 
person who was an eye-witness, that he sawa piece of land 
covered with white clover, in consequence of its being ma- 
