It has been found, by repeated experience, that when wheat is about one dollar per bushel, an acre of ground, taken from a state of nature, and well timbered, will require, with great economy, fourteen dollars per acre to put it into a crop of wheat or rye, including every ,expense : this I have seen ascertained with great accuracy, in a field of forty acres, near Geneva : these forty acres may be, at the least, expected to yield one thousand bushels of wheat ; and after deducting two tenths or two hundred bushels, for reaping and threshing, . leaves a balance of eight hundred Dushels to defray the expense and as profit for the value of the land used ; and the land is left in complete order for a second crop, without any more expense than the trifling one of plowing and sowing.

It is also found, that the temperate climate, and richness of the loastures, particularly adapt the Genesee Country for those branches of farming dependant on cattle. No part of America is better aaapted for dairy farms ; for at no time is the weather so hot but butter can be made and preserved. The quantity of cheese already made is considerable ; several farmers keeping from twenty

• This season a field of twenty acres was averag-ed at Bath, and found to bear of good hay three tons 8 cwt. 46 lb. per acre. In many places the red clover was four feet seven inches longf.