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ot the merchant for sale; to preserve the mighty mass and to put it in- 

 to marketable shape. Gianeries, wagons, and mills, and canal boats, 

 and steamboals, and ships, a.id brigs, and schooners, and sloops will 

 be required: but before the grain leaves the farmer or the flour leaves 

 the mill, the patent revolving d'yer and cooler of Mr. J. B. Stafford, 

 of Cleaveland, Ohio, should be used; and your committee recom- 

 mend its use with entire confidence, fully satisfied that it is the only 

 safeguard for flour, and meal, and grain, against change of climate, 

 and the various effects which arise in shipment and transhipment: 

 and from a low to an increased temperature. 



Your committee has before it a large amount of statistical infor- 

 mation connected with the subject under consideration, but the great 

 leno-th to which this report has reached admonishes the committee 

 not to trespass further upon your patience. Your committee beg 

 leave to offer the following resolution: 



Resolved, That the revolving dryer and cooler for drying and cool- 

 ing grain, flour, meal, and other substances of Mr. J. R. Stafford, of 

 Cleaveland, Ohio, meets the approbation of the Farmer's Club of the 

 American Institute. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



GEORGE G. SICKLES, 

 D. C. MOREHEAD, 

 JAMES R. CHHTON. 

 CHAS. HENRY HALL. 



A''ew-York, June 6, 1848. 



Mr. Sickles. — One word before I go on the important subject ot 

 curing clover. In 1835 I tried for the first time a new mode of 

 curing clover. I cut it on the 29th of June in very fine weather; as 

 fast as I cut, I rolled it into small cocks, let it lay in the sun until 

 noon day, then opened it to the hot sun for four hours, then I drew 

 it in my barn, on the floor of which I spread it loose about two 

 feet thick. I then spread over it about one foot thick, loose, of bro- 

 ken threshed wheat straw, and with like layers I completed a mow 

 of about five tons. 



In a separate bay I put a layer of loose clover about two feet 

 thick and sprinkled over it Ashton ground Liverpool sack salt, which 

 comes in sacks of about four bushels; I put about one peck of this 



