land) is a strong soil with a
large proportion of clay. But the question after all is, not whether
these States cannot grow wheat, and in comparatively large
quantities, for we know that while their lands are fresh, they can
and do--but whether, considering the hazard of the crop from
winter-killing, the rust, the fly--the risk from the two former
being equal to a large per cent. premium of insurance, they are not
likely to find their interest in grazing, in raising and feeding
stock, instead of attempting to extend their wheat husbandry. Lord
Brougham has said, that grazing countries are always the most
prosperous, and their population the most contented and happy. The
meat markets of Great Britain are likely to prove better and more
stable for us, than their grain markets.

The Hon. Henry L. Ellsworth, a distinguished citizen, and large
farmer of Indiana--distinguished throughout the Union for his zeal
in the cause of agriculture--thus expresses himself on this subject:
"After a full consideration of the subject, I am satisfied that
stock-raising at the West is much more profitable than raising
grain. Indeed, an examination of the north-western States shows a
vast difference in the wealth of the grazier over those who crop
with grain. The profits of wheat appear well in expectation on
paper, but the prospect is blasted by a severe winter, appearance of
insects, bad weather in harvesting, in threshing, for there are but
few barns at the West, or transporting to market, or last, a
fluctuation in the market itself."

Such is the opinion of Mr. Ellsworth, the result of observation and
experience, himself largely interested in ascertaining the safest
and surest course to be pursued. The destiny he has indicated for
this beautiful fertile region of country, will undoubtedly be
fulfilled; it will become a great pastoral, stock-raising, and
stock-feeding country.

Ohio stands now, as she did at the census of 1840, at the head of
all the wheat States, in the aggregate of production; her crop of
1848 being estimated at 20,000,000, which is about equal to 101/2
bushels per head of her population. The geological survey of this
State, and the character of the soil, as described in the Reports of
the Board of Agriculture, in a large range of her counties, as a
"clayey soil," "clayey