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water, then well washed in pure water and boiled to a paste, arc very fat- 

 tening to sheep ! Deer eat them raw — they enrich cow's milk — they cure a 

 horse's icough — hence the name The Horses^ chesiiut. 

 Physic for stock, is as bad as it is for man. 



STABLES, 



Keep them as clean as possible. In an open field where the stock lire 

 very much according to nature, they cannot suffer from their own manure 

 and bad air. Their stables therefore ought to he as cleaii in all respects as 

 the open pasture^ if possible. And feed them with punctual regularity. 

 They feel a breakfast, dinner, and supper at too early or too late hours 

 more than any alderman ever did. They suffer, and your pocket paj^s the 

 loss. 



Giant Pea, of Himalaya, grows six feet high, have large pods with large 

 peas, very fine eating. 



Mr. Fuller, a gardener of Brooklyn, exhibited to the Club a new 

 seedling pear from France, of rich color and weighing one pound six 

 ounces. Mr, Fuller read extracts made by him relative to fruit. 



[Jouriml De Maine et Loire, November, 1S68.] 



Mons. Caulaincourt gave a splendid dinner yesterday which was truly a 

 grand affair. On the table there were seven pears which cost three hun- 

 dred francs (SGO,) a piece — a diplomat's dinner of the first order. 



At another dinner, in the saloon of the Provencaux brothers, six persons 

 had for their des.sert, fruits and wine at the cost of 1.500 francs. 



In passing the fruit store of Madame Chcvet, in the Palais Royale, I 

 saw pears in the window marked with their prices, sixty francs each. I 

 walked in and asked Madame Chevtt if she could sell the pears readily at 

 such prices ? Her reply was " certainly, and we sell some pears for much 

 more; we have some that cost one hundred aiid tioeniy francs each. We 

 let them at fice francs each, to figure on the tables, at gentlemen's din- 

 ners, where they occupy the post of honor on the tables, to be looked at 

 but not eaten or even touched. Paper ones would answer the same pur- 

 pose except in that fragrance given off by the real pears." 



Mr. Pell. — Apples were put into barrels with cider to keep well. On 

 arriving in Europe thej^ were admired for their beautiful appearance, but 

 they had lost all their flavor and tasted of nothing but cider ! 



Mr, Lawton remarked that he was pleased with the lesson on physic for 

 stock, and thought it as bad for men. 



Prof. Mapes. — Yet it is often wanted for both, and has very useful 

 results. 



Prof. Nash. — When young, I used to wait on my father's stock of thirty 

 or forty cattle, among whom sickness was unknown. They were always 

 fed with great regularity but ne er pampered. 



Mr. Meigs. — Our best butchers advised me long ago not to buy beef for 

 my family unless certified to be of cattle with healthy livers^ for many of 



