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manure. The practice generally among our farmers has been to 

 let their wheat get fully ripe before they cut it. Some lately 

 have pursued a different course, and, no doubt, benefited by it^. 

 they have put the sickle in earlier. They must take care though 

 and not be too early. The kernel should not be in full milk,, 

 otherwise the grain may shrink and sustain injury. 



Professor Mapes moved that the Secretary be requested to pre- 

 pare for the club at its next meeting the census of value and 

 quantity of cotton, corn, oats, wheat, rye, hay, wool, sugar, bar- 

 ley, tobacco, &.C. Adopted. 



The Professor intimated that one single inch deeper ploughing. 

 in the whole Union would produce more Avealth than all our im- 

 ports, including the gold from California. 



The Secretary thought that six inches deeper ploughing wo Id 

 nearly double the agricultural products, which cannot be esti- 

 mated at less than three thousand millions of dollars in a single 

 season — therefore worth, in only eight months of the year, all 

 the gold of California for sixty years, at the present rate of about 

 fifty millions of dollars a year. 



Professor Mapes — I aim to show also that the tobacco (supposed 

 much of it to be Havana), is grown in our neighbor State Connec- 

 ticut, and on the lands adjacent to the shores of our Lake Erie. 



The Club adjourned to the second Wednesday of July (the re- 

 gular day being 4th of July) i. e. the 11th of July, at noon. 



Subject — " The relation between an increase of crops and an 

 increase of national prosperity." 



H. MEIGS, Secretary, 



JulyU, 1854. 



[Postponed from the 4th (the 1st Tuesday) on account of the celebration.] 



Present — Messrs. Lawton, ofNew Rochelle, V/aring, Van Wyck,. 

 Dr. Waterbury, Mr. Waggener, Paul Stillman, Solon Robinson, 

 Judge Scoville, Professor Hooper of Brooklyn, and others — 1& 

 members in all. 



