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 loam,” “clay subsoil,” &c., shows Ohio to possess a fine natural wheat soil, if indeed, alter thirty years of a generally successful wheat husbandry, such additional testimony or confirmation was necessary.

Michigan has also been successful in the cultivation of wheat.  Her burr-oak openings are unsurpassed in producing wheat.  They are intervening ridges between low grounds, or marshes and bodies of water, and their location not generally considered very healthy.  A doubt has also been suggested as to whether this soil, being a clayey loam, resting on a sandy and gravelly subsoil, is likely to wear as well as some other portions of the fertile soil of the State.  The Commissioner of Patents puts her crop for 1848 at 10,000,000 of bushels, which is equal to 231/2 bushels to each inhabitant!  By the census of 1840, the population of Michigan was 212,267; number of bushels of wheat, 2,157,108.  Her population in 1848 is estimated at 412,000.  While she has barely doubled her population, she has, according to the above estimate, more than quadrupled her production of wheat—­increased it at the rate of about one million bushels a year for eight consecutive years, making the quantity she grows to each head of her population more than double that of any State in the Union.

We can at least say, and appeal to the