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remunerative returns in dairy products, meat and wool ? Instead 
of confining yourselves to wheat, which we can get from the Baltic 
cheaper than from America, send us cheese, which is more nutri¬ 
tious and desirable for food than any other article, and for trans¬ 
porting which to the European markets only one-twentieth of the 
shipment will be exacted by the carriers. If you send butter, the 
carriers will only exact one-fortieth of the shipment for transporta¬ 
tion. England raises about 95 per cent, of the meat consumed by 
her population; and it is of a superior quality to that sinewy stuff 
which occasionally comes from the rinderpest districts of America. 
Even the fine and coarse wools we manufacture into cloths for 
consumption in America, come chiefly from the cheap grazing-lands 
of Australia and South America; and you had better pay more atten¬ 
tion to hearty and hardy sheep, of large frame and heavy fleece 
adapted to the production of flesh for eating, and wool for the 
coarser and heavier fabrics required in your cold climate, bearing 
in mind that a sheep pays his way well as a fertilizer, or a machine 
for converting under-brush, stubble, roots, coarse hay, and straw 
into manure, especially if 3 T our land needs resuscitation after an ex¬ 
haustive process of grain-culture. Instead of shipping maize, which 
will cost more for freight than production, send pork, which will 
be required in moderate quantities for the army and navy and sail¬ 
ors, as only about one-sixth of the pork shipment will be consumed 
by freight. We love our homes and kindred so well, that it is diffi¬ 
cult to sunder the ties of either; and as Mr. David A. Wells, of Con¬ 
necticut, and Mr. Horace White, of Illinois, who were recently in 
Europe, assure us, that America is moving rapidly and steadily to¬ 
ward a commercial system which shall equalize the value of labor 
on both continents, we prefer to remain in our own native country, 
provided you will feed, us with cheese, of which England annually 
demands one hundred and thirty millions of pounds in excess of 
production, amounting to thirteen millions of dollars at ten cents 
per annum; or say twenty millions of dollars at fifteen cents per 
pound; while Germany requires much more, for its population 
have a higher appreciation of cheese as a nutritious and econom¬ 
ical article of food. It is the luxury of the rich, and the food of 
the poor. 
British farmers pay to the landlords annual rent equal to the 
total value of American land. The subdivision of lands in France 
