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I confirm, by my experience, the valuable statements of Mr. Hall, 

 as to the method of raising turkeys. I have also seen the advantage 

 of using unburned lime, and its remarkably fertilizing effects on 

 corn. 



In Ohio, we stand A number One, in the raising of Flax. Preble 

 county gives great crops of it. Preble gives this year one hundred 

 thousand bushels of flax seed! of which ninety thousand go t^ market. 

 We raise for the seed chiefly, and throw away the lint. 



Subject for the next meeting: 



"Does the repeated cutting and carrying off. wood impoverish the 

 land?" 



The Club adjourned: 



H, MEIGS, Secretary. 



INTERIOR OF LONG ISLAND. 



The attention of the Farmers Club of the American, Institue having 

 been directied'to the large tracts of wild' and uncultivated land in the 

 middle or central part of Long Island, commonly called the " plains," 

 or " barrens," by Dr. E. F. Peck, who had resided several years on 

 the island, and who, after a careful examination of large portions 

 of these lands, arrived at the conclusion and opinion, that they were 

 susceptible of high and profitable cultivation, without drfficulty, other 

 than the time and labor requisite to- subdue and render fruitful all- 

 new lands, (whether on the island or elsewhere) and the Club having 

 received, through the instrumentality of Dr. Peck, an invitation from 

 the President of the Long Island Rail Road Company, James H. 

 Weeks, Esq., to visit the Island, and examine the wild and unculti- 

 vated parts contiguous to the rail road, with a view to agricultural 

 and horticultural purposes, to see if in the opinion- of the agricultu- 

 rists of the Institute, this large portion;, now waste and wild, of the 

 Island, can by ordinary means be converted into farms and gardens.. 

 The object being of a public nature, to wit: to learn the extent and 

 quality of these long neglected lands, and worthy the notice of the 

 friends of agricultural improvement, the invitation was accepted. 



