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applied. We must resort to those rich deposits made by our ' 

 waters bearing them from our farms. 



Mr. Solon Robinson — We had better take proper measures to 

 prevent our vegetable riches from being swept away by the waters, 

 and that can be done by various means requiring good sense and 

 industry^ industry I Yes, sir, industry I ' 



The club continues the subject to the next meeting, with ! 

 another proposed by Mr. Solon Robinson, " Advantages of Agri- \ 

 cultural Education." 1 



The Club then adjourned to July 18th, at noon, being the third i 

 Tuesday. j 



H. MEIGS, Seer 



Present — Messrs. Dr. Waterbury, Solon Robinson, Prof. Hooker, 

 of Brooklyn, George B. Rapelje, Mr. Waring, George Bacon, 

 Judge Van Wyck, Judge Scoville, Peter B. Mead, M. Wagener, 

 and others — 19 members in all. 



George B. Rapelye in the chair. Henry Meigs^ Secretary. 



Mr. Meigs said that he said he seldom spoke of any matter as 

 original with himself. There was so much well said upon all 

 subjects by other men, that he had almost confined himself to 

 selections from works in various languages, especially from the 

 valuable assemblage of works on every subject at Paris. 



Agriculture requires the best roads as well as the best imple- 

 ments to carry on its gigantic and invaluable work. We are 

 now familiar with this vast motive, but I have deemed it not 

 unjust to myself, and possibly useful to others, to speak of what I 

 have formerly done in regard to them, and of the result of my 

 thinking fur some forty years and more. The future will prove 

 their truth. 



In 1809, the writer first noticed the principle of substitution of 

 solid rails of wood or iron for the wheel tracks of roads. Led to 



