Si2 [AsSEMBLlt I 



Produce. 



Great Britain and Ireland. France. United States. Russia. 1 



Horses — | 



1,600,000 2,818,000 n'r 5,000,000 18,000,000- ! 



Cattle— J 



18,000,000 near 9,000,000' 18,360,000 25,000,000 



Sheep and goats — i 



50,000,000 32,000,000 22,000,000 50,000,000' 1 



i 

 People — \ 



27,000,000 n^ar 36,000,000 23,000,000 



Potatoes — 

 34,000,000 bush. 65,000.000 



Oats^ 

 11,000,000 bush. ........ o 



Solon Robinson exhibited two potatoes grown by ]\Ir. T. H^ 

 Matterson, of SherbuFne, Chenango county. State of New-York, 

 which were deemed as fine specimens as had ever been seen by 

 the members of the club. They are supposed to be of the kind 

 known as Peach-blow and old English White, and are of remark- 

 able specific gravity for their size. The weight of one of these 

 is seventeen and of the oiher eighteen ounces. Mr. Matterson 

 says, " I send these samples in proof of tlie accuracy of your re- 

 cent statement that potatoes have not been more plentiful or of 

 better quality for years. A piece of ground, from which, last 

 season, I had only about fifteen bushels, has, this year, yielded 

 sixty bushels, and with no change in the mode of cultivation^ 

 besides, either of the samples I send you is as large as- any four I 

 dug last year. As far as I know, the crop this year is abundant, 

 and the quality excellent, and I see. no earthly reason why the 

 citizens of New- York should be compelled to pay such exorbitant 

 pTices for this important vegetable, except the one you have lately 

 given, viz., the interests of speculators.'^'^ 



Mr. Robinson remarked that the place where these grew waSy 

 perhaps, fifteen hundred feet above the sea level, and had no^ 

 been aflfeeted by drought as much as other sections. 



