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July 9, 1805. Remarks on Deneale's Threshing Machine, witb 

 a plate of it. 



Cartwrlght's three coultered plow. 



Hoxie's patent auger, for boring post holes in ground free from 

 stones, &c. 



A mould board of full size, made on Jefferson's plan. 



Indian corn harrow, works well. 



February 11, 1806. Scalded the roots of young peach trees 

 before setting them out. Scalded the bottom of the trees about a 

 foot ; soap suds hot, baring the roots. 



Levi Hollingsworth — Give poultry brick; fattens and saves 

 food. 



Vaughan — Charcoal fattens cattle and stock. 



June 10, 1806. Dr. Meare showed half a pint of wheat raised 

 in Ireland from wheat brought some years since from Palestine, 

 by the eccentric Dr. Whaley, whose " Walk to the Holy Land " 

 has been often noticed in the papers. The straw of the wheat 

 when first brought to Ireland was a strong reed, not an empty 

 hollow, but filled with nutritious sap or pith, which lendered it 

 as provender for horses and cattle, equal to oats.' The grain made 

 an unusual quantity of the finest flour. The original cultivator 

 of it sold his seed wheat for ten guineas a stone, (nearly $4 a lb.) 



Nov. 11, 1806. An ear of Indian corn, of 26 rows, yellow 

 flinty. Some ears of corn have thirty and even forty rows. Tay- 

 lor, of Virginia, (author of the Orator,) has a hedge of cedar trees 

 two feet apart, seven miles long. It contains 18,460 trees. 



Mr. Vaughan showed an ear of corn from near the Pacific ocean, 

 consisting almost entirely of farina. 



March 8, 1808. Native grapes, and wine making from them. 

 ( barse flour and brown bread. 



Hemlock for line fences, trench plowing, building walls, thick- 

 ness, cement, &c. 



On spontaneous new growths on burnt lands. 



On draining. 



Economical kitchen stove. 



How to farm poor land, by Judge Peters. 



