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Chairman. I wrll offer a few remarks on the regular subject: In 

 the United States patent office, there may be said to be a thousand 

 and one churns for making butter; almost every county has its pecu" 

 liar churn. I present a very simple method of making butter. It 

 consists of closely woven or twilled cotton cloth, wetted and placed 

 over a vessel; into this cloth cream is poured and left for several 

 hours, during which time the buttermilk percolates through the cloth, 

 so that all that is then necessary, is to knead or work ihe butter, to 

 expel the remaining buttermilk. If the cloth should not be clo&e 

 enough in its fabric, double it. 



Gouveneur Morris desired the opinion of tie club as to the best 

 mode of cultiTating millet. 



Theodore S. Gold, one of the principals of the Green Hill Agri^ 

 cultural School, in West Cornwall, Conn., remarked that millet 

 planted in drills, produced large crops of seed, but when tried broad- 

 cast, the growth was less and the seed little, and of that most part 

 dropped from the ears. It attains about three to four feet in height, 

 and will prove as heavy a crop a» hay. 



Mr. Gold presented a catalogue of the Green Hill Agricultural 

 School, at West Cornwall, in Connecticut. 



Mr. Elisha Tyler, Esq., of Detroit, was introduced; and at the re- 

 quest of several, remarked as follows, in relation to the soil climate, 

 &c., of Michigan:^ 



That part of Michigan which lira between lake Superior, Michi- 

 gan and Huron, called the Upper Peninsula, with its adjacent islands, 

 contains more than twelve millions of acres, being nearly three times 

 as large as Massachusetts. The waters of its lakes as transparent 

 as the ethereal heavens, and climate cold, will undoubtedly insure it, 

 even to be free from the bilious diseases so prevalent among all the 

 more southern regions, while its interior continental position, will 

 equally favor its exemption from the consumptions incident to the 

 borders of the Atlantic. For agricultural purposes, it would not 

 suffer by a comparison with an average of Northern New-England 

 and New- York. 



The soil and climate both improving as you proceed towards the 

 southwest end of Lake Superior, in many, the soil appearing as well 

 as could be desirod, bearing unequivocal testimony of future agricul- 

 tural wealth. Hard maple gropes, equal to any elsewhere to be 



