and self-denial metamorphose that forest and its straggling Indian band into a land bursting with the rich fruits of the soil, and buzzing with a busy hive of human energy and intelligence.  Yes; and he lived to see temple after temple, raised for the pure worship of the True God, supplant the ignorance and idolatry which reigned undisturbed at his first coming.  Say, then, reader, has not the son of such a father just cause for pride—­a solemn call to emulation?  The patriarchal founder of his family and their fortunes has left an imperishable monument of his greatness in the prosperity of this rich vale; and Providence has blessed his individual energies and forethought with an unusual amount of this world’s good things.  “Honour and fame—­industry and wealth,” are inscribed on the banner of his life, and the son is worthily fighting under the paternal standard.  The park grounds below the house bear evidence of his appreciation of the beauties of scenery, in the taste with which he has performed that difficult task of selecting the groups of trees requisite for landscape, while cutting down a forest; and the most cursory view of his library can leave no doubt that his was a highly-cultivated mind.  I will add no more, lest I be led insensibly to trench upon the privacy of domestic life.

I now propose to give a slight sketch of his farm, so as to convey, to those interested, an idea of the general system of agriculture adopted in the Northern States; and if the reader think the subject dull, a turn of the leaf will prove a simple remedy.

The extent farmed is 2000 acres, of which 400 are in wood, 400 in meadow, 400 under plough, and 800 in pasture.  On the wheat lands, summer fallow, wheat, and clover pasture, form the three years’ rotation.  In summer fallow, the clover is sometimes ploughed in, and sometimes fed off, according to the wants of the soil and the farm.  Alluvial lands are cultivated in Indian corn from five to ten years successively, and then laid down in grass indeterminately from three to forty years.  Wheat—­sometimes broadcast, sometimes drilled—­is put in as near as possible the 1st of September, and cut from the 10th to the 20th of July.  Clover-seed is sown during March in wheat, and left till the following year.  Wheat stubble is pastured slightly; the clover, if mowed, is cut in the middle of June; if pastured, the cattle are turned in about the 1st of May.

Pumpkins are raised with the Indian corn, and hogs fattened on them; during the summer they are turned into clover pasture.  Indian corn and pumpkins are planted in May, and harvested in October; the leaf and stalk of the Indian corn are cut up for fodder, and very much liked.  Oats and barley are not extensively cultivated.