PROCEEDINGS OF THE FARMERS* CLUB. 387 



March 19, 1867. 

 Mr. N, C. Ely in the chair; Mr. John W. Chambers, Secretary. 



Concord Grape. 



The chairman read a letter from Mr. Bliss, Secretary of the 

 "Warsaw Horticultural Society of Hancock Co., Illinois, stating 

 that they reaffirmed the decision of the committee on the Greeley 

 prize for the Concord grape. They say it possesses all the good 

 qualities ascribed to it by the committee. 



Mr. N. C. Meeker. — I will state for the information of those 

 who do not know whether the fruit-growers of Warsaw are good 

 judges, that I visited the place last spring and made a thorough 

 examination. It is about 200 miles above St. Louis, on the upper 

 Mississippi. The town is handsome, and on the hills surrounding 

 it, grapes everywhere are planted. I had visited Cincinnati, 

 Cleveland, the Ohio Lake Shore and the Islands, and nowhere 

 had I seen better cultivation or more thorough knowledge of 

 grape-growing, or better wine houses or wine than at Warsaw. 

 They are intelligent, industrious, and have smart children. 



Sheltering M^vnure. 



Mr. J. W. Orr, Carlisle, Pa., asks if it is proper to keep manure 

 dry, as a neighbor of his built a shed over his barn-yard to preserve 

 his manure, and then had to open places to let in water. 



One of the members stated, that Avhen he was accustomed to 

 use barn-yard manure, he protected it from the storms of rain and 

 snow, and from the sunshine, and kept it from heating by pump- 

 ing the liquid manure from a cesspool, and sending it to various 

 parts of the yard in conductors. 



Mr. J. <T. Bergen thought that it is a question whether it w^ould 

 pa}' to shelter barn-yard manure. 



Mr. R. J. Dodge thought it was a useless expenditure of time 

 to erect shexls over coarse manure. 



Mr. W. S. Cai-penter said, in winter, evaporation is so slow, 

 that very little if any of the fertilizing portions, are lost by 

 evaporation. 



Mr. Isaac Hicks, L. I., thought that if farmers had liunber 

 given them, it might pay to cover their manure. But, ordinarily, 

 it would be a losing operation to purchase lumber for building 

 manure sheds. 



Mr. W. S. Carpenter stated, that some farmers have been to 



