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opens, and when it is filled it closes, and the water runs into the 

 next pocket, and so on till all are filled. On the journey, the dry 

 food being taken into the stomach, one of the pockets opens, and a 

 little water rises to moisten the food. On that occasion I rode six- 

 teen days, during which the camels had no water. Some time after 

 this period, all the water in these pockets will be exhausted, when 

 the suffering of the animals will be extreme. Not unfrequently 

 is it the case, when on long journeys in the Orient, the supply of 

 water for the master and his people is exhausted, when there is no 

 other resort than to kill a camel, however reluctant they may be 

 to do it, however highly it is prized, and no sooner does it fall than 

 its side is cut upon, and the parched lips are applied to one of the 

 pockets, where water is found as limpid and as pure as from a 

 mountain spring. These studies show the wonders of creation, and 

 when we view other objects, from the humble insect to the magnifi- 

 cent hosts of the starry sky, we cannot help confessing that the 

 hand which made them is divine. The learned traveler and elo- 

 quent speaker then promised that when he should return from 

 Boston he would speak on the stomach of the horse, and show, 

 among other things, that often he is cruelly treated by being made 

 to take filthy and ofiensive medicine, when if nature were permitted 

 to use her remedial powers, health would be restored. 



On motion, the thanks of the Club were unanimously voted to 

 Dr. Smith for his interesting paper, of which the above is an 

 abbreviation. 



TURKISH CLOVER. 



Mr. S. Edwards Todd brought a stool of Turkish clover in full 

 bloom, with the roots in a box of earth, which was taken from the 

 meadow of S. R. Colwell, Weymouth, South Jersey. There were 

 more than fifty heads on that one stool, the blossoms of which 

 were as red as fresh blood. The heads are three inches long, and 

 after the blossoms have fallen, they appear like large and repulsive 

 caterpillars. Mr. Colwell has several acres of this kind of clover 

 growing on very light, sandy loam soil, side by side with a few 

 acres of the common red clover, Trifolium Pratense. Both kinds of 

 clover had been mowed when this stool was taken up, June 14, and the 

 second crop was in full bloom, and would be fit to mow in a few days. 

 The Turkish clover is ten to twelve days earlier than the common red 

 clover, and yields, on that light soil of New Jersey, three crops in one 

 season. Mr. Colwell feeds the green clover to his stock and teams. 

 and is well pleased with it as a plant for making pasture or hay. 



