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be no inducement to sell the false seed which cheat a man not only 

 out of his years crop, but out of one year of his life, for it is almost 

 as bad, to find the labors of a whole year in vain by planting false 

 seed. Such a seed shop as there will be on this farm, will be re- 

 sorted to from all quarters. Your unpaid president will never bear 

 the reproach that the State seed shop has sold or even given away, 

 had seeds ! 



Mr. Hyde. Our attempts to establish manual labor schools have 

 hitherto wholly failed in this country, by being in hands too learned 

 to be practical. The learned and excellent Dr. Dwight of Yale Col- 

 lege, before he was president, by his personal attention to his farm 

 nearly maintained his family, and at the same time, taught scholars 

 and preached his sermons, finding abundant time for all these avoca- 

 tions. 



Mr. Wakeman. I was fortunate enough to be one of his scholars, 

 and I confirm the truth of Mr. Hyde's statement, with his own hands 

 my reverend master raised vegetables enough for all his family. 



Mr. Hyde. I have kept a school in Georgia, had a farm of only 

 four acres, worked it all with my own hands, kept two cows, a hog, 

 and was employed daily with my scholars six hours. 



Boston^ Feb. 2ith, 1847. 



My dear sir : — I will not leave the United States without express- 

 ing my thanks to the Institute, and to you as its organ, for the invi- 

 tation given me to deliver an address on the agriculture and arts 

 of the Chinese — which nothing but the imperative nature of the du- 

 ties in which I have now engaged would prevent my doing; and if 

 I return from Mexico, I shall be very happy to comply with the 

 wishes of the Institute in regard to that or any other subject. 

 I am, very truly and respectfully, 



C. CUSHING. 

 T. B. Wakeman, Esq. Cor. Sec. 



March 30, 1847. 



Hon. James Tallmadge in the Chair, Henry Meigs, Secretary. 



C. N. Bement, of Albany. The following valuable experiment 

 made by him in the planting of potatoes, was transmitted to the club 

 by T. B. Wakeman, the Corresponding Secretary, who is at present 

 in Albany, on the business of the Institute: 



