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against fraud in the purchase thereof. We write not of prices, 

 for we are willing that such articles shall take their chance with 

 other commodities. Supply and demand will regulate the price. 



We would here close, but feel constrained to urge our friends 

 to note carefully the statements made by Mr. Metcalf, and 

 especially those by Dr. Nichols ; also the study of the lecture 

 given by the last-named gentleman at Salem, and published in 

 the Secretary's Report for 1866-7. If bones can be prepared at 

 home, of which there need not be a doubt lingering in the mind 

 of any, why should not all available and legitimate means be 

 used to secure to ourselves the benefit of such knowledge ? 



Every good and prudent housewife keeps tucked away in 

 some secret place what is commonly called a grease-pot, where 

 she deposits all the waste fat, for the purpose of exchanging the 

 same for soap when the soap-man shall come along, or that she 

 may play chemistry in the manufacture of that article, and 

 thereby dispense with the services of that indubitable functionary, 

 the soap-man. 



Why not, then, every prudent and economical farmer have a 

 box or barrel placed in some out of the way corner, where all 

 the bones on which the family have exercised their carniverous 

 propensities may be deposited for safe-keeping, until winter or a 

 rainy day shall afford an opportunity to exercise upon them the 

 crushing weight of the sledge-hammer, and then treat in the 

 manner suggested by Dr. Nichols. Let us hope that the hints 

 which have been thrown out in weakness, and for which nothing 

 original or particularly striking is claimed, may stimulate us 

 and others to more energetic action in reference to the subject 

 of this Essay. Asa Clement. 



John A. Morton. 

 E. W. Boise. 



This report having been read and laid over, the following 

 Essay was presented upon 



THE RELATION OF MANUFACTURES TO AGRICULTURE. 



BY DR. NATHAN DUKFEE. 



The histories of the last two centuries are full of instruction, 

 as showing us the progress of science in all tlie arts. 



We can trace in a clear and impressive manner the true re- 

 lation that exists between the manufacturing and agricultural 



