STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 18D 



much success in farming unless I put into the soil a little more than I 

 took out. 



Mr. Pearce. Market gardners are many of them beyond the reach 

 of this manure and it is necessary that it be taken to the country by 

 the cars. 



Mr. Hale cited the instance at Chicago, in the vicinity of the stock- 

 yards, where the offal was disposed of in that manner and taken con- 

 siderable distance. 



Mr. Pearce thought there was no great obstacle in the way of the 

 removal of this material in that manner. 



Mr. Hale. The various railways could remove it to the different sec- 

 tions of country where most needed; they would doubtless haul it at 

 a nominal rate. 



Mr. Pearce said this was an important matter. It' market garden- 

 ers were to supply I he demand for vegetables in the city they should 

 take steps to obtain the necessary material to fertilize their lands 

 properly. 



Mr. Cleveland. Mr. President, nearly forty years ago I was engaged in 

 fruit raising and market gardening on the Delaware river, some twen- 

 ty miles above Philadelphia. I was then a pretty active member of 

 the Pennsylvania and New Jersey horticultural societies, and this 

 question we are discussing to-night used to come up very often. We 

 were very anxious, many of us, for a proper solution of the question. 

 There were various companies started. I remember a certain profes- 

 sor in New York City recommended an article called " Poudrette," 

 and there were companies formed in different cities for utilizing the 

 garbage of cities. I do not know whether it is still manufactured or 

 not. It used to be made very extensively. We used to get stable 

 manure from Philadelphia, which was brought up on sloops, and 

 landed on the banks of the river. A good many farmers used "Poud- 

 rette," and it was but a short time until it was such miserable stuff it 

 was scarcely good for anything. The genuine article was valuable as 

 a manure; but there are people who, if they can buy a sham article 

 that is a little cheaper, will get it and think that is economy. But I 

 know I preferred a sloop load of Philadelphia manure to all of that 

 stuff they could bring me. 



On motion, the meeting then adjourned. 



