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addition of two elements, silica and niti-ogen ; the former of which may be 

 supplied by the proper disintegration of the earth, the latter by ammonia, 

 always present in the rain. 



Prof. Nash described as he saw it, the management of liquid manure on 

 Mr. Mechi's farms. One man, with a hose of gutta percha, parts the 

 standing grain, and in one day gives a shower of liquid manure to eleven 

 acres. The fluid is forced by steam power, some forty to fifty feet high, 

 and thence falls in a fine shower. 



The cleansing of this great city can be done by an intelligent capitalist 

 with large profit to himself and vast benefit to the adjacent farms and 

 gardens. 



Mr. Lawton. — Vide his paper. 



Dr. Underbill, of Croton Point, gave samples of his wines, the pure 

 juice of his Isabella and Catawbas, saying that our taste was wrong as to 

 wines, all requiring them to be what nature has not made them, that is, 

 sweet ! Some mistaken persons have strongly asserted that American 

 wine diff"ers from European, in having no cream of tartar in it ! when in 

 fact, it contains as much as any wine in the world, and it would not be 

 wine without it. If neutralized it was injured and rendered suitable to 

 depraved tastes. I found seventeen pounds of tartar in one cask of my 

 wine. The far famed Madeira wine was always twenty per cent brandy. 

 Europe says that our Catawba is a strong wine. You know what large 

 quantities of our whisky goes to France to return in other names of wines 

 and brandies. 



Mr. Meigs. — All who visit Europe find that all the masses drink sour 

 wine. Such is always the case with their " Viu du Pais." 



Mr. Pardee moved that the Board of Agriculture alter the meetings to 

 Mondays, and that, believing there would be no objection, we adjourn to 

 Monday ! Carried. 



Question for next meeting, by Mr. Lawton, " Our national loss of fertility 

 by exports of produce ;" also, " Small farms near cities ; Drainage ; and 

 City manures." 



The Club adjourned. 



H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



February 7, 1859. 



Present — Messrs. President Pell, Bruce, Burgess, Fuller, Leonard, 

 Chambers, Pike, Pardee, Stacey, Witt, Solon Robinson, D. C. Bobinson, 

 Veed'jr, Judge Livington, Chilson, Doughty, Lawton, Dr. Crowell, and 

 others — thirty-nine members in all. 



President Pell in the chair. Henry Meigs, Secretary. 



