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thing through a quill into the eye. Even now, if the eye could 

 be let alone, nature would yet absorb after a while the white 

 deposit, and vision would be restored ; but the inevitable quill 

 puts the matter in a few weeks beyond the power of reparation- 

 Gentlemen horse doctors ! you that saw fit to bleed a horse, that 

 had just performed one hundred miles in ten consecutive hours, 

 in order to rest him, pray put up your fleams and pocket your 

 eye quills, until this enquiry shall be directed by some theory — 

 you are quite too practical. 



The following questions were adopted for the next meeting of 

 the Club, viz : " Cooking food for hogs." " Cutting and steaming 

 food for cattle." "Building of Ice-houses." "Use of salt in 

 agriculture." "Use of lime in agriculture." "Washing fruit 

 trees with alkaline washes." 



Judge Livingston presented from his farm on the Hudson, a 

 new pear, witliout a name, and requested the Club to name it. It 

 is small, very round, and of very high rich taste. Many intelli- 

 gent members deemed it fit for the first class for fine flavor. The 

 tree is of moderate size, some five or six inches diameter, 30 years 

 old, grows a fine head with but little pruning. Also his Beurre 

 D'Aremberg pears, and his peculiar Snow apple, so called because 

 it hangs on the trees until snow falls ; a small, yellow, very well 

 flavored apple. 



The Club adjourned to Tuesday, December 5th, at noon. 



H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



Becemher 5, 1854. 

 Present — Messrs. Hon. Robert Swift Livingston, C. I. S. Good- 

 rich, U. S. Consul at Lyons, France, Dr. Wellington, Dr. Water- 

 bury, Dr. Edgar Peck, and Mr. Chester Coleman, of Brooklyn, 

 Prof. James J. Mapes, Solon Robinson, Esq., Col. Travers, of 

 Osceola Point, New Jersey, James De Peyster, George Bacon, 

 George B Rapelye, E. R. Crouch, Esq., Civil Engineer, of Eng- 

 land, Mr. Vail, and others, between thirty and forty members 

 in all. 



