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Whatever plan for the increase of the water-supply in New 
York may be adopted, provision should be made for cutting 
off the sources of contamination which now exist, and will 
inevitably multiply, along the line of drainage from which our 
water-supply must come. I refer to the farms, and particularly 
the dairy and stock farms, which lie within the Croton basin. 
The contamination produced by the drainage of such farms can 
be prevented by two methods: either the city must control these 
farms and change the character of the drainage from them, or 
it must bring the water from reservoirs beyond the farming dis- 
tricts, in pipes or aqueducts from which the local drainage is ex- 
cluded, Either plan would involve great expense, but it would 
be a necessary expenditure and one which a great and wealthy 
city could afford. 
The subject was further discussed by Mr. CHITTENDEN, Dr. 
JULIEN, and others. 
February 25, 1889. 
ANNUAL MEETING. 
The President, Dr. NEWBERRY, in the chair. 
Twenty-nine persons present. 
The annual reports of officers and standing committees were 
presented as follows: 
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