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Mr Wakeman moved that the thanks of this Club be presented to 

 the President and Directors of the Long Island Railroad, and to 

 those of the Harlem Railroad, for their free offering of their roads 

 to the Club for its excursion, ploughing and spading matches, during 

 the past season. 



This motion was unanimously carried. 



Mr. Wakeman moved a vote of thanks to Col. John Travers, of 

 Osecola Point, N. J., for his offer of a premium of twenly-five dol- 

 lars for best essay on flax and hemp. 



This motion was unanimously adopted. 



Mr. Meigs moved a vote of thanks to Capt. De Peyster of Staten 

 Island, for his present to the Club of a bushel of ears of splendid 

 corn. 



Unanimously adopted. 



Mr. Haggerty mentioned the sending to our market, within a day 

 or two past, of an ox (from his Long Island farm) weighing 1915 

 pounds. 



The question whether manure ascends or descends, is continued over. 



Adjourned to the 16th of November at noon. 



H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



November 16th, 1847. 

 Judge Livingston in the Chair. 



Mr. Meigs read the following translation, made by him from the 

 OAuxiliador da Industrta JVacional of Rio de Janeiro, June, 1846. 



ON THE SALUBRIOUS RESULTS OF TREES, ETC. 



The Roman Legislators knew that trees were of high importance 

 between Rome and the Pontine marshes, securing the city from the 

 effects of the pestiferous efBuvia, generated by heat; and these mias- 

 mas were formerly absorbed by the trees. To-day, for want of the 

 trees, the air is infected, and dangerous to breathe during the hot 

 months. Rome abandoned her agricultural institutions, and the con- 

 sequence of this fatal error, was trouble, mendicity, and crime. 



