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ceed this year has not been stated. There is no doubt but the 

 plan will eventually succeed. National or State aid should be 

 given. France gave it and reaped immense returns. 



Eeport of Committee on Unsound Wheat Flour. 



Mr. F. C. Treadwell, chairman of the committee on the unhealthy 

 flour sold in the markets of New York and Brooklyn, read so much 

 of the report as had been prepared for the occasion, and it was 

 approved by a vote of the club. 



The committee was then directed to prepare a memorial to the 

 Legislature, setting forth the magnitude of the frauds and impo- 

 sitions now practiced by the flour dealers of New York and Brook- 

 lyn, with a view to having more efficient inspectors appointed, 

 who would examine the flour thoroughly and honestly, and not 

 put their brand of approval on a barrel of flour when they knew 

 it to be bad. 



The chairman reiterated some of the suggestions made by H. 

 B. Smith, of Westfield, Mass., touching the inspection of beef, 

 Mr. Smith purchased a large number of barrels of beef, which 

 was recommended to him as a choice lot of meat. He ordered it 

 shipped to Westfield, where it was distributed among the laborers. 

 They commenced cooking it, and soon found that it was all dam- 

 aged "stinking" meat; and when the barrels w^ere opened, the 

 meat was all green, and emitted such an ofiensive odor when it 

 was being cooked that it could be smelled more than fifty yards 

 from the house. He returned it to New York, where it was all 

 pronounced good beef except two barrels, and was sold to ship- 

 masters for good beef. It was suggested that this will be the way 

 with flour inspectors. The evil cannot be reached without encoun- 

 tering serious difliculties. 



Mr. Ferdinand Lawrence said he was opposed to compulsory 

 inspection; he had been prominent in getting the inspection of 

 hops done away with. 



Paris Exposition. 



Dr. Snodgrass offered the following resolution: 



Hesolved, That the Farmers' Club of the American Institute 

 observes with great satisfaction that the Congress of the United 

 States have authorized the Commissioners of Agriculture to collect 

 and forward to the Paris Exhibition specimens of all the cereals 

 grown in this country, and that we recommend to the ftirmers 

 throughout the country to forward at once the desired specimens 

 to Washington. Unanimously adopted. 



