830 TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 



Thus it appears that the Coustitution, in recognizing to this very 

 limited extent the inspection laws of the several States, reserves 

 to Congress the power to modify and control them. If the several 

 States have no inspection laws, or enact laws clashing with each 

 other, or laws incompatible with the general interests of commerce, 

 the Congress may come to the conclusion that, under the power 

 to regulate commerce, it may provide a uniform system of inspec- 

 tion laws. 



The following resolutions were presented: 



Resolved, That a memorial be addressed to the Governor and 

 Senate of New York, requesting the appointment of an inspector 

 of flour for the Metropolitan district, in which the city and county 

 of New York are situated, with power to enforce the laws now in 

 existence in regard to the inspection of flour and meal. 



Resolved. That a memorial be addressed to the Legislature of 

 the State of New York, requesting that body to pass a declaratory 

 act in reference to the laws now applical)le to the inspection of 

 flour and meal; or to revise and modify those laws in such manner 

 as will afford all possible protection to the public health of the 

 community against the deleterious effects of the use of unsound, 

 bad flour, and of bread made of such poisonous materials. 



F. C. TREAD WELL, Sr., Chairman. 



New York, January 22, 1867. • 



Spring Wheat. 



Mr. George Z. Mitchell, Ncav ^qyhqj. — " Will the celebrated 

 spring wheat of the west do well in this State ?" 



Mr, John Crane. — This wheat does Avell with me in New Jersey, 

 but the Canada Club and all other bald varieties are uncertain. 

 It is important to change the seed. It would be a good plan to 

 get seed fi'om the west. 



Mr. Wm. S. Carpenter. — I prefer to raise winter wheat. Spring 

 wheat in this section, makes black and poor bread. The Mediter- 

 ranean is the best variety, and it has improved of late years. One 

 year I raised eighteen acres, and it yielded about thirty bushels 

 to the acre. 



Mr. Solon Robinson. — I have always succeeded with White 

 wheat. 



Mr. N. C. Meeker. — There are some varieties of spring w^heat 

 which make as good bread as most winter wheat, the Rhode Island 

 for instance. It is important to know that spring wheat must be 



