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Members are requested to bring and exchange with each other 

 best grafts, cuttings, seeds, &c. 



The Club adjourned to Tuesday, May 2, at noon. 



H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



May 2, 1854. 

 Present — Judge Livingston, Solon Robinson, Captain Holmes, 

 Prof. Mapes, Mr. Waring, Mr. Scott, Mr. Toucey, Mr. Lowe, Mr. 

 Lodge, and others- — seventeen in all. 



Hon. R. S. Livingston in the chair. 



Henry Meigs, Secretary. 



The Secretary read the following translations and extracts made 

 by hira during the recess, viz : 



[From the Journal of Agriculture and Transactions of the Highland Agricultural Society of 

 Scotland, March, 1854.] 



AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS OF FRANCE AND GREAT 

 BRITAIN. 



The recent work of Mons. Leone de Lavergne is a valuable one. 

 We extract from it. In his comparative views of the agriculture 

 of England and France, he shows the extent of the British Isles 

 to be thirty-one millions of hectares of area — equal to about se- 

 venty-seven millions of acres (the hectare is nearly 2^ acres), or 

 about three-fifths of the area of France, which is estimated at 

 about fifty- three millions of hectares, or about one hundred and thir- 

 ty-two millions of acres. England proper is the largest and richest 

 part of the three kingdoms, containing thirteen millions of hec- 

 tares of area — about thirty-three millions — more than a third of 

 the extent of the British Isles, and about one fourth of the area 

 of France. In comparing England with the best cultivated dis- 

 tricts of France, viz., Flanders, Artois, Picardy, Normandy, and 

 the Isle of France, there is no equal extent of land to match it. 

 Some of our soil— as the whole of the north, for instance— is su- 

 perior in productiveness to the best of England. But France does 

 not possess thirteen millions of hectares as well cultivated as those 



