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hailed with gi-eat satisfaction by all consumers of fruit. Every 

 one who has a garden should have the Wilson blackberry, and it 

 should be followed up by the Kittatinny, another most valuable 

 acquisition in the way of blackberries. It was fii'st in size, and 

 first in productiveness, and first in quality, in which latter respect 

 the Wilson was somewhat deficient. It was very hardy, and would 

 stand out severe winters without deterioration. 



GRAPE BOXES. 



Mr. Wm. B. Harrison exhibited a new grape and berr}-^ box, made 

 by the Berlin Heights Manufacturing Company, Erie county, Ohio. 

 It is intended to furnish the stuff to the fruit-growers, already cut 

 and fitted, and let them nail it together. The inventor says that 

 25,000 of these boxes were used on the shores and islands of Lake 

 Erie last year. 



BREAD MIXING JIACHINE. 



Messrs. F. F. Forbush & Co. exhibited one of their machines. It 

 IS turned by a crank, to which is attached cog-gearing, which works 

 two upright parallel rollers, that turn in a tin circular pan and 

 knead the bread. 



HAIR FELT FOR ROOFING. 



Mr. M. A. Johnson, Lowell, Mass., exhibited specimens of hair 

 felt. It is recommended for durability, and adapting itself to the 

 shrinldng and swelling of the roof, and also for making a house 

 cool. 



Dr. Jarvis thouffht that the moths would cause its destruction 

 after a few years. 



CX)RN AND COTTON STALK CUTTER. 



Dr. Jarvis exhibited a model of a machine for cutting corn and 

 cotton stalks, which he had invented. If this machine will do 

 what is claimed for it, it must come into general use. 



DIRECTIONS TO A YOUNG FARMER. 



Mr. W. J. Lambert, Brookl3n, L. I., states that he has just 

 bought thirty acres of land, but, having been brought up in a city, 

 he wished the Club to inform him what books and agricultural 

 journals would give him the desired knowledge. 



Mr. N. C. Meeker. — I advise him to hire a man who understands 

 farming well, put him to work on his place, and then go to work 

 under his directions. I do not believe in book-farming, as it is 

 generally understood. 



