command was encamped in S. J.'s fields and
orchard, round about the house.

This morning I came to J. K.'s
habitation and spent a few hours with him in con-
versation respecting my friends in England, he
having lately returned from a visit to that nation.

I slept last night at W. T.'s,
and this day went over J. T.'s estate, where I vi-
sited the old family mansion, which was erected
on the first settlement of this country. In many
parts of America, and particularly in this neigh-
bourhood, it is the practice of many farmers to
reserve about 15 or 20 acres of land for hay,
which they continue to mow from one generation
to another, many of them laying on but little or
no manure; but taking the advantage of situation,
where the land may easily be irrigated or over
spread with water from time to time. By this
means they obtain heavy crops of grass without
the aid of manure, and thus supply themselves
with winter fodder at an easy expense. On in-
quiry of W. T. and P. P. two very respectable
farmers and land-owners, they informed me that,
upon an average, they got about 2 1/2 tons per acre
each year, upon this plan. The land usually
chosen for this purpose is not a dead flat or
marshy land, but commonly the two sides of a