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I ought not to occupy another moment, but I will state a fact 

 or two. I said something about growing grapes in trees. Now, 

 I know we are laughed at for talking about growing grapes in 

 trees. Scientific agriculture laughs at us ; but when I can turn 

 round and say that I have a grape-vine that has grown for twenty 

 years in a black cherry-tree, (and that is the best use it was ever 

 put to,) and produced from two and a half to four bushels a 

 year, which I sold this year for ten cents a pound, I do not 

 care much for the laughter of science. I regard science with as 

 much respect as anybody else, but when a man can grow good 

 grapes in a worthless tree, in some worthless corner of his gar- 

 den, and get a good crop, why should he not do it, and let 

 science laugh ? 



A friend of mine has a Concord grape-vine which yields a 

 hundred pounds every year, and it has never failed to ripen. 

 There are a hundred pounds, that he got twelve or fifteen cents 

 a pound for, this year. You will not get bunches weighing a 

 pound or a pound and a half from a vine that you allow to run 

 into a tree, as you may if you check and cramp it, and make it 

 throw its strength into a few bunches ; but see what a quantity 

 you get! And the quality is as good, even better. Mr. Leach, 

 of Wilmington, N. C, describes the original Skuppernong grape- 

 vine in that State as a vine two feet in diameter, which runs all 

 over the trees, and yields fifty bushels a year. Does it pay to 

 grow grapes in trees ? It does down there, certainly. 



The Chairman. It would be exceedingly agreeable to the 

 Chair to sit here and listen to remarks upon this subject until 

 early morning ; but I am reminded by gentlemen that the time 

 for adjournment has arrived. 



The Board then adjourned, to meet at 10 o'clock on Wednes- 

 day morning. 



SEC OND DAY. 



Wednesday, December 9. 



The Board was called to order at 10 o'clock by Col. Wilder, 

 and on motion of Mr. Birnic, Hon. George A. King, of Barn- 

 stable, was elected chairman for the day. 



Mr. King, on taking the chair, said : — 



I am obliged to you, gentlemen, for whatever of honor there 

 is implied in the election to preside over your deliberations to- 



