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best portable steam engine, not more than eight horse power, for 

 threshing and other farm purposes. Not a word about the forker^ 

 either that of Saniuelson or anybody else. The Earl of Harrow- 

 by (good title) said, that agriculture, manufactures and commerce 

 ■were all sisters of one family; and like the sisters of families a 

 little disagreement occurred among them at one time. Happily 

 that time had gone by. The agriculturist was a manufacturer. 

 He manufactured beef and bread for us to eat. (Cheers.) The 

 Mayor said that the superbly cultivated heaths, wolds (plains), and 

 fens (marshes) of the country, and the enterprize, energy and 

 industry displayed in their reclamation and culture, afford the 

 most striking and biilliant proofs of the triumphs of science over 

 ignorance, of energy and intellectual power over supineness and 

 lethargy, and a liberal capital over heartless neglect and covetous 

 jrugality. 



We now see these lands smiling in all the luxuriance of pro- 

 ductive nature, bidding defiance to that element (water) which, 

 by the aid of science, has now been chained within its narrow 

 limits and left to perform its allotted functions of fertilizing and 

 moistening the arid soil, instead of breeding pestilence and corrup- 

 tion to the beast, and death and destruction to the vegetation. 

 (Loud cheers.) 



Mr. Solon Robinson observed that a very useful and instructive 

 volume on the subject of breeding fish, by William H. Frye, is 

 now published by the Appleton's, and he advised all who wished 

 to practice and amuse themselves to have it. 



The Chairman called up the subjects of the day, viz.. Insects 

 injurious to crops, and the sale of all farm and garden products 

 by weight. 



Judge V. Wyck, who had proposed the first of these questions,- 

 viz.. Insects injurious to crops, said he thought that insects, even 

 during the present year, severe as tlie drought had been, had done- 

 nearly or quite as much damage to our crops. Tlie effects of the 

 one are seen and felt by almost every body, the other works more 

 quietly, and, in a great degree, under cover. We are not fully 

 aware of the extent of the mischief they do until we come to 

 gather and realize our products. In looking over th- public? 



