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and pork had been the cause of more sickness than any other two 

 articles of diet in America. 



Dr. Smith thought that more people died from want of such 

 food than bj^ the use of it. It is said that it produces irritation of 

 the skin. He believes that that is beneficial. In his case, he finds 

 no food more digestible than buckwheat cakes. 



Mr. Solon Robinson expressed the same opinion. He has suf- 

 fered as much as any other individual with dyspepsia, and finds 

 nothing: that dio-ests better than buckwheat cake and molasses. 



^Ir. Wm. S. Carpenter said two members of his family were 

 dyspeptics, and no food agreed with them better than buckwheat. 

 They generally improved in health while using that food. 



Dr. Peck objects to it because it does not give stamina. It lacks 

 the muscle-making element. 



Prof. Tillman. — Then oat meal should be added to the diet, as 

 it is said to be richer in that element than any other grain. 



Mr, W. Lee said he had been a contractor upon public works, 

 and that it was a common remark that the men from districts 

 ■where buckwheat was the principal article of breadstuffs, were not 

 worth much as laborers. They cannot endure toil like those fed 

 upon wheat flour and lean meat. 



Apples and Peaks. 



Mr. John Crane, Union, N. J,, exhibited the Douine, Jonathan 

 and Belmont apples, grown in Illinois, and the Belle et Bonne 

 apple and Columbian pears grown upon his place in A^ew Jerse3\ 

 This pear he considers the best winter variety, and recommends 

 all who are unfortunate enough to have Glout Morceau to graft 

 them with Columbian. 



The Belle et Bonne apple is what its name indicates : beautiful 

 and good. The Illinois apples are principally remarkable for 

 their variation from the same kind grown about here. 



Mr. Wm. S. Carpenter remarked he had never seen such large 

 specimens of Jonathan apple. 



Mr. Crane said they were not selected for size, but taken just 

 as they came. Adjourned. 



December 11, 1866. 

 Mr. Nathan C. Ely in the chair ; John W. Chambers, Sec'}^ 



Fruit fkom Salt Lake. 

 Dr. Lewis A. Sayer, on his journey from New York to San 



