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No. 2. Wheat meal biscuits. Pour boiling water upon wheat meai, 

 and mold quickly into a rather soft dough, cut with a biscuit cut- 

 ter after rolling to an inch in thickness. Prick the cakes and bake 

 in a very quick oven. 



No. 3. Wheat meal rolls. Mix wheat meal with cold water into 

 a rather stiff dough. Mold for five minutes; roll out to an inch or 

 less in thickness, and cut into rolls of four or five inches in length, 

 and one in width. 



All these ai'e to be baked in a hot oven, as quickly as possible, 

 without burning. They require the greatest heat at first, and a 

 hotter oven than other kinds of bread. 



Nothing should be put in but coarsely ground meal and water, 

 if they are expected to be light. And they will be very light if 

 made and baked rightly. It requires patience and experience to 

 succeed well, unless one is a painstaking cook. 



No. 4. Best brown bread. Three parts corn meal, two parts lye 

 meal; or one-third each of corn, rye and wheat meal. Scald the 

 corn meal thoroughly. Cool, and add the rye or rye and wheat. 

 Stir as stiff as possible with a strong spoon, and halve in a stone 

 crock or iron kettle, covered, five or six hours, very slowly at first. 

 Or steam four or five hours and bake one. 



There need be no dyspepsia and no unhealthy children where 

 any of these forms of bread are made a staple article of diet. 



Adjourned. 



July 2, 1867. 

 Mr. Nathan C. Ely in the chair ; Mr. John W. Chambbks, Secretary 



APPLE TREE BORER. 



Mr. G. Morgan, Port Byron, N. Y. — I destroy the apple tree 

 borer by applying pitch pine tar with a small paint brush, filling 

 the holes made by the borer as full as possible. I have seen no 

 signs of the pests since. 



Dr. Trimble. — This cannot be so. The borer enters near the 

 roots of the tree, and going up he fills the cavity he makes with 

 chips. The holes which were filled with tar were where he left 

 the tree. The damage already had been done. The apple tree 

 borer generally comes from the nursery, and a single one will stock 



