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gi-apes, &c., as well as cereals, be referred to a committee of five of 

 the members of the Farmers' Club, to consider the matter further, 

 and to recommend the best and most feasible means of action, 

 with leave to report at any time." 



The Chairman then named the following individuals as a com- 

 mittee, to report at their pleasure on the foregoing resolution, viz: 

 Stelhier Moulton, Dr. J. V. C. Smith, Prof. S. D. Tillman, Dr. J. C. 

 Snodgrass, J. R. Sypher, Dr. Isaac P. Trimble and S. Edwards Todd. 



IMPROVED PLOW POINTS. 



Mr. H. G. Hall, Zanesville, Ohio, exhibited an improved plow 

 point, providing for the renewal of the point and edge of the wing 

 of plowshares, at an expense of not over five cents per point. This 

 was received as an excellent device for keeping plow points sharp. 

 The same man showed a harrow of curious construction, which can- 

 not be described intelligibly without drawings. The teeth of this 

 harrow are made like a curved coulter with the points standing 

 back instead of forward. The upper end of each tooth is round, 

 and turns in a socket in the frame of the harrow. Such teeth can- 

 not clog. 



It is a question which must be decided by practice, whether teeth 

 that are constantly glancing and sliding around obstructions will be 

 more effective, in pulverizing the soil, than rigid teeth that move in 

 a direct line through sods and other obstructions. 



FRUIT PICKER. 



Mr. John Bally, Deposit, N. Y., exhibited his Excelsior frmt 

 picker, attached to the end of a staff, for taking specimens of 

 fruit from the branches of trees. This picker does not pull the 

 fruit from the branches, but it is so constructed as to cut the stem, 

 without jarring the limb. The knife is attached to a movable jaw, 

 and the cutting edge is provided with a shield to protect the fruit 

 buds from being cut off with the fruit. Among the large number 

 of such devices, for taking one specimen of fruit at a time from the 

 tree, this one appeared to possess an advantage in this important 

 point, of cutting the stem instead of the twig which holds the fruit 

 buds. When the stem is severed the fruit is received in a small 

 sack attached to the end of the pole holding the fruit picker, 



FIBEEIZED CONCRETE. 



Mr. S. T. Fowler, Greenpoint, L. I., exhibited a block of this 

 article, weighing perhaps a hundred pounds, suitable for building 



