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.

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to thirty cows. The cattle brought into the country from the neighbouring States thrive well, and some bred in the country have grown to a great size.* The mildness and short duration of the winter, when compared with that of the great cattle cour.r..cs in the New-England States, are much in favour of the Genesee Country. When we consider the ease with which every thing can he sent to market, the surplus grain, the product of the dairy, the salt provisions, and fat cattle, will at once appear a fund of wealth to the country.

The settlements already formed on the principal navigations, and whose inhabitants are used to business, and respectably connected, find, at an early period, the most advantageous markets for their surplus produce. To Canada, beef, salt, pork,j flour, and whisky, are already sent to a great amount.J To the county of Steuben, nature has pointed out a market by the Susquehannah River. Several of its branches atTord good navigation to the most westerly parts of the county. They may be navigated almost to their source, for five or^six months in the year, by boats carrying from f've to eight tons ; but when the surplus produce requires the carriage of heavy articles, to Baltimore, the natural sea port of this part of the country, for six weeks, or two months in the spring, while the waters are kept high by the melting of the snow