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opened to the present advancement in corn knowledge they could 

 raise vastly more. 



Professor Mapes invited the club to appoint a committee to 

 visit his farm at Newark, at 9 o'clock A. M., on Friday next, to 

 witness the operation of Gibb's Spading Machine. The Professor 

 thinks it likely to prove a great cultivator, spading rapidly by 

 four feet wide, and fifteen inches deep, ass fast as oxen can draw it. 



Mr. Robinson believed, that in this machine we have, at least, 

 the nucleus of a capital new style agricultural implement. In 

 all ploughs the sole and the land side compress the soil, and con- 

 sume half the power besides. 



Messrs. Edwards & Small, of 49 Broadway, sent for trial com- 

 pressed vegetables and fruits of the Paris Masson process, con- 

 ducted by Chollet & Co. As a succedaneum t\>r fresh vegetables 

 on long voyages, and as preventives and curatives of scurvy, they 

 are excellent. They are compressed as hard as wood, and when 

 kept perfectly dry cannot decay. 



The Chairman appointed, as the committee to visit Professor 

 Mapes and the Spading Machine, Messrs. Horace Greeley, Solon 

 Robinson, Coleman of Brooklyn, Meigs, Hon. R. S. Livingston) 

 Rev. Mr. Carter and Professor Hooper of Brooklyn. 



Mr. George Shorey asked the opinion of members of apples 

 presented by him. The club thought them good, fair specimens 

 of a sweet apple. Name not determined. None such among the 

 Glover models of the Institute. 



Main subject, " Fences,''^ proposed by Mr. Robinson. 



Members will remember to bring grafts, seeds, cuttings, &c., for 

 distribution and exchange. Some of Mr. Pell's fine fall pippin 

 grafts will be on hand. 



The Secretary regrets that he has lost some of the most highly 

 valuable remarks of Professor Mapes on Indian corn, by relying 

 on a report from a professional Stenographer. They were the 



