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May 2, 1848. 

 Judge Samuel Cheever, in the Chair. Henry Meigs, Secretary. 



St. Petersburg Free Imperial Society of Agriculture, 



The following translation from the Annales de la Societe Royale 

 D'Horticulture, Paris, by H. Meigs, Esq., Secretary of the Farmers' 

 Club, of the American Institute, may interest our agricultural readers. 



Proceeding of the Free Imperial Society of Agriculture of St. 

 Petersburg in 1846. By Mor. Parisot De Cassel. 



The Royal Horticulture Society of Paris, has received at its sess- 

 ion of November, 1847, the first Quarterly Bulletin of the Russian 

 Society. In Russia they do not separate by any distinct line of de- 

 marcation, gardening from farming. It is a matter of curiosity to 

 kuow the precise condition of these industries in a country still so 

 little known as Russia! And to mark the ameliorations little by 

 little which take place and afterwards put down solid roots on a 

 large and generous basis. 



Summary of Proceedings. — 1. M. Odert de Giepenberg, Director 

 of the Agricultural school of Mustiala near Tawasthus in Finland, 

 presented a Seed Sowing Machine of his own invention, which sows 

 both large and small seeds, w'ith great regularity. It has been proved 

 by an English farmer in Finland, — Mr. Philip Pusey. 



The Society voted an idemnity to the inventor. 



2. M. Prokopowitsch, a farmer of Tschernigow, presented Honey 

 Combs 0)1 elongated bands, in lon^ hives. This honey keeps better 

 and is more easily transported. 



3. M'Schutz, a membei', is invited to translate into the Russian 

 la\iguage, the work of Baron de Babs, on elementary agricultural 

 chemistry. A translation of that work has been already made by a 

 lady into French for the Society of Allier, — of which she is an hon- 

 orary member, in 1846. 



4. Wasa Rye being deemed best for the neighborhood of St. Pe- 

 tersburg, the Society ordered the purchase of eighty tons for dis- 

 tribution among the people of this region. 



