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injury to any one in the house, and it can be carried out of the 

 city early in the morning Avithout scattering disease ; thence it 

 goes to a proper phice, where it is fermented and ground "with 

 unslacked lime, ready for the farmer's use. 



Dr. J. V. C. Smith, spoke of the great want in this city of places 

 of retiring ; the condition of things was shameful to the authori- 

 ties. The city of Paris had set them a proper example. 



Adjourned. 



February 5, 1867. 

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



Eats. 



Mr. J. C. White, Van Burcn, Arkansas, asks what is the best 

 mode of building corn cribs ? Half his corn is destroyed by rats 

 after it is placed in the crib. Is there a remedy ? 



Mr. Solon Robinson. — In Ohio they have anti-rat societies; they 

 go out and hunt rats, and give premiums to those who kill the 

 most. 



Mr. W. S. Carpenter. — It is easy to build a corn house rat 

 proof. It should be placed on piles three feet from the ground, 

 on which Xqw quart pans are inverted. Flat stones, or even 

 boards might answer, then have moveable steps. The iioor of a 

 corn crib always should be open enough for ventilation. Much 

 corn moulds for want of this precaution. 



Mr. N. C. Meeker. — The question is one of great importance. 

 It is safe to say that rats destroy and consume grain enough to 

 feed a million of people. 



Success in Growing Delaware Grare Vines. 

 Mr. A. Townshend, Ocouomowoc, Wisconsin : " I make the 

 DelaAvare bear in sixteen months from starting the vines or layers. 

 I layer the ripe wood of the last season's growth in boxes made 

 of lath, so open that the roots pass through the sides and bottom. 

 In the ftdl or spring I remove them to the vincA'ard, and have 

 fruit the next Sopteml)er. I send a photograph of two Delaware 

 vines, layered May 20 ; six or eight inches were pinched off iVu- 

 gust 10. I had a growth of twelve feet in two months and twenty 

 days. I bought vines of Dr. Grant which he called first-class, 

 with joints two and a half inches long, and which cost me here 

 nine dollars each. I have improved their vigor so much that I 



