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most interested. The people, presuming this matter to be in charge 

 of the board of managers, it is only within the province of the Club 

 to suggest such a course as to them seems most likely to secure the 

 object sought. My choice for two of that committee would be 

 Charles Downing and J. J. Thomas, and the balance should be 

 ' like unto them,' men who have no private ends to serve — only 

 jpro bono publico." 



page's pump and sprinkler. 

 Mr. N. Page exhibited a small pump and sprinkler. This pumps 

 water from a pail, tub, or barrel, in a fine mist, or in a single jet, 

 over a space of two inches or ten feet, and, if needed, forty feet 

 high. It is recommended for gardens, for washing windows, bug- 

 gies, and a great variety of uses. 



white's combixed washer and wringer. 

 The clothes are pressed between two rubber blocks and are sub- 

 ject to alternate compression while held by the hand; w^hen let go 

 they go forwai'd and pass out through a wringer, and the whole 

 w^ork is completed by the continuous w^orking of a crank. As the 

 process only showed the movement of a cloth that was clean, it was 

 referred to Mr. Wm. S. Carpenter and Dr. Hallock, to associate 

 with them a committee of ladies to try the machine and make a 

 report. 



Sherwood's C!Otton-seed planter. 



Mr. N. B. Sherwood brought a one-horse planter inta the room, 

 and put it in operation, by dropping cotton seeds on the floor, in a 

 row, to show the operation of the machine when planting seeds in 

 the field. It will distribute from one to four bushels of cotton 

 seed per acre. The machine is drawn by one horse, is held and 

 guided by two handles, similar to plow handles; a tooth opens the 

 furrow, into which the seed is dropped, after which it is covered 

 and the ground rolled over the seed, all at one operation. Its 

 weight is 175 pounds. The inventor said, it is in practical opera- 

 tion in Tennessee. The members thought favorably of it, but, of 

 course, could pass no opinion without seeing it work. 



Newman's propagating box. 

 Mr. E. C. Frost, Watkins, N. Y., was then introduced to talk 

 about propagating boxes and flower pots, in which cuttings are 

 propagated. He greatly prefers boxes to pots. For this purpose 

 he makes boxes of wood, the sides of which are about four inches 

 high, of half-inch material, and about two feet long. The boxes 



