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yield clover. Try it! I am willing for one, to labor in this cause. 

 Let a proper committee be appointed to examine the soil of the isl- 

 and thoroughly. 



John Harris, of Parkersburgh, Virginia, presented fine samples of 

 wool from his flock, which lives there in the woods all the year, 

 never requiring to be housed. 



Edwin Williams. I invite those who please to go to the farm of 

 Henry Shotwell, about two miles from Rahway, New-Jersey, to see 

 a field of Teazles of his growing. 



Charles Henry Hall in the Chair. 



J. D. B. Debow, of New-Orleans, presented to the Club a number 

 of his periodical work, " The Commercial Review." 



Letters were received from Alpheus Bigelow, Jr., Western, Mass. 

 stating his disappointment in the experiment of raising Lady Finger 

 potatoes; from Gerrit W. Mosely, M. D., of New-Brunswick, N. J. 

 with four specimens of marls and sulphurous clays, for analysis, from 

 lands in South Araboy and Lower Freehold townships, Middlesex and 

 Monmouth counties, N. J. Also a sample of prepared peat used for 

 fuel, also a specimen of bog ore. 



Subject, Wool, to be continued. 

 The Club adjourned. 



H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



August nth, 1847. 

 Lewis G. Morris, Esq. in the Chair, H. Meigs, Secretary. 



Mr. Meigs stated that in a conversation with Charles Henry Hall 

 of Haerlem, he was instructed by the remarks of Mr. Hall relative 

 to the best method of breeding poultry, particularly turkies. Mr. 

 Meigs said that this was no humble subject, not while the turkey on 

 €very table finds his ardent friends and lovers of both sexes. It was 

 worthy the strict inquiry of all whom it might concern, to learn how 

 to raise this fine bird. He had taken the pains to write down mi- 

 nutely the method pursued by Mr. Hall, which was as follows: 



Place the turkey eggs for hatching under a hen, the reasons for 

 which are, that the moment the young turkeys are out of the shell, 



