No. 244.] 4^5 



W. H. John. — We shall douhle, yes, treble, our surplus in the 

 next forty years, prices will fall in proportion. 



The same subjects to be continued and also proposed by Mr. 

 Downing, the best mode of manuring. 



Adjourned to 1st Tuesday of March next. 



March 6, 1849. 



Judge Van Wyck, in the chair, Henry Meigs, Secretary. 



Mr. Meigs called the attention of the Club to the new agricultu- 

 ral work of Fresenius, it is highly recommended by one of the most 

 enlightened and judicious agricultural societies in the world, viz., 

 the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland. They say of 

 this "Hand Book of Chemistry applied to Agriculture," "Dr. Fre- 

 senius has been known for some time by his two standard works on 

 Analytical chemistry, and we congratulate the agriculturists on the 

 appearance of this new book." Authors generally are careless io 

 their Indices. This book is all Index, if we may be allowed the ex- 

 pression; any one who has studied Euclid's Geometry will under- 

 stand our meaning. No one thinks of an index to that book, be- 

 cause everything flows so naturally from what goes before, that any 

 part required can be readily found. The whole style is so peculiar 

 that we must refer to the original for a full confirmation of what we 

 have said in its praise. Contrary to many writers, there is here 

 nothing taken for granted, nor any theories built upon unsafe or un- 

 certain deductions. 



On the main subject of the day, the relative interests of the At- 

 lantic and Western States in Agriculture. It was reasonable to 

 suppose that all articles of a tender, delicate character, can not bear 

 long transportation to markets, without injury, but that the masses 

 of bread stuffs, and the horses and cattle would belong to the West, 

 and when the cattle arrived here our part is to prepare them for 

 market. 



Mr. spoke of meadow lands continually improving in fer- 

 tility for many years by draining and top dressing, say 20 years. 



