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tow, being in the flax about fifty per cent., and in hemp about thirty 

 per cent, whereas by Anderson's brake it is little if any. Col. San- 

 ders stated that the hemp and flax stalks were steeped in an iron 

 liquor, an antiseptic, for a day, in which time, after drying, they are 

 ready for the brake. 



Mr. Wakeman. We have some valuable papers on hemp, which I 

 move to have referred to the Club at its next meeting. Carried. 



Mr. Meigs read the following remarks by Thomas Jefferson on 

 farmings 



Mr. Jefferson once said that •' God has made the breasts of those 

 who labor in the earth, his peculiar deposite for substantial virtue; 

 the focus in which he keeps alike the sacred fire which might other- 

 wise escape from the face of the earth. That, corruption in the 

 mass of cultivators, is a phenomenon of which no age or nation has 

 furnished an example; it is the mark set on those, who not looking 

 up to Heaven, to their own soil and industry, as does the husband- 

 man, depend for it on the casualities and caprices of customers, and 

 that the proportion which the aggregate of other classes of citizens 

 bears, in any State, to that of the husbandman, is the proportion of 

 its unsound to its unhealthy parts." 



J. D. Williamson gave his method of raising melons. 



Raise hills two feet high and six feet in circumference, then place 

 a barrel on the top of the hill and fill it with rotten manure, and 

 then plant your melon seed on the outside of the barrel all around 

 it, and every morning pour one pail of water in the barrel. When 

 the plants reach eight feet in length down the bottom of the hill, 

 cover the ends over with soil, by which means you will get melons 

 weighing forty pounds, three weeks earlier than the common way. 



Melons raised this way, this season brought $40 the hundred, 

 when others raised on the old plan brought only $10 to $15 per 

 hundred. 



