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Farmers' Club, March 27, 1855. 

 Present— Messrs. R. L. Pell, Taylor, Toucey, Sandford, Clapp, 

 Barney, Lowe, Birdseye, Pardee, Coleman, Lodge of Jersey, B. 

 Pike, sen., do. Bowman, Silliman, P. B. Mead, Prof. Mapes, Dr, 

 Waterbury, Dr. "Wellington, John A Bunting, Judge Sco villa, Mr. 

 Leigh, Colonel Travers, &c — 70 members in all. 



President Pell in the chair. Henry Meigs, Secretary. 



The Secretary read the following papers prepaied by him, and 

 extracts : 



[London Farmers' Magazine, March, 1855. Extract by the Secretary.] 



Mr. Mechi argues strongly in favor of measures for saving and 

 applying the sewerage of London for fertilizing the land. The 

 water meadows of Edinburgh were adverted to. In 1826 some 

 of these acres were let for .£20 to <£50 each. The grass on thenj 

 was cut not less than six times a year, with as heavy a swathe as 

 a man could cut with a scythe; this was used as feed for cows. 



The most astonishing results were at Mansfield, where the 

 meadows were irrigated by a stream that runs through the town, of 

 not half the strength of the liquid manure of Edinburgh. These 

 meadows once leased at four shillings and six pence an acre, and 

 farmed at great expense, were levelled by the Duke of Portland, 

 and then brought £11 an acre, more than fifty times as much. Mr. 

 Chad wick said the meadows of Edinburgh had proved injurious 

 to the public health. Mr. Nesbit said that accurate experiment? 

 showed an average deposit per annum of solid excrement of the 

 human species was 1,100 lbs. weight of urine and 150 lbs. of 

 solid, worth about 12 to 15 shillings sterling Cp to $4) per per- 

 son. Easy to save the solid but not the liquid. The manure of 

 London was worth from jCl, 500,000 to ^£2,000,000. 



£Jouriial of Agriculture and the Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of 

 Scotland. March, 1855. Extracts by H. Meigs.] 



Auxiliaries to Farm Yard Bung. 

 It is now generally admitted that British agriculture cannot be 

 profitably carried on without an extensive use of special or arti- 

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