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ces are extremely rare; and when applied on a large scale, are shown 

 to be without value. The disease, a true consumption, still contin- 

 ues, and will continue unless some radical method is adopted to 

 eradicate it. From my own observation and experience, I am led 

 to the belief that this formidable disease has been much aggravated 

 and spread throughout the country, by budding from trees containing 

 in themselves the seeds of incipient consumption, not yet externally 

 developed. A bud may be taken from a tree appaiently sound, but 

 after a time both trees will be affected and decay, and so on ad infi- 

 nitum. The only remedy appears to be to bud from trees which are 

 known to be entirely sound, and in which no disease has appeared 

 for several generations. By taking this precaution, growers may rely 

 upon having trees that with ordinary care will live and bear fruit for 

 many years, and in time eradicate this evil. That the disease, how- 

 ever it nvdj hiive originated, had not its origin in either the soil or 

 the climate of this latitude, is pretty evident. Natural trees can now 

 be found in great numbers, of many years growth, alongside fences 

 and other neglected situations, perfectly sound, and likely to remain 

 so. These are the trees to propagate from, and although the fruit is 

 generally of an inferior quality, yet a cultivation of a few years 

 will render it of superior flavor. 



Roswell L. Colt, of Paterson, in a letter to Mr. Wakeman, which 

 was read, lecoraujends premiums in money to be given to exhibitors 

 of cattle and stock, instead of medals, when it is desired by the 

 competitors. 



Mr. Wakeman moved the appointment of a Committee to select 

 delegates to the State Agricultural Society, 



Adopted: — And the following committee was appointed: 



Dr. Underbill, Samuel Van Wyck, Col. Clark, Judge Livingston, 

 and Mr. Wakeman. 



Chairman The regular subjects are now in order. That is Agri- 

 cultural Colleges. The ascent or descent of manures in soil, and 

 liquid manures. 



Mr. Meigs. As to the position of manures in soil, it is now tho- 

 roughly recommended in gardening, to begin on one side of the 1 md, 

 dig up the soil down to the subsoil, carry the soil thus taken off to 

 the opposite side of the ground, then put manures in the trench thus 



