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cured or half-ripe cereal grain, after it has been threshed and stored 

 in the bins." 



Mr. Lawtou. — In "Westchester county the farmers put a little 

 salt on their hay. I have always practiced salting hay to improve 

 its flavor. 



Mr. R. G. Pardee. — During the sixteen years of my farming, I 

 never heard that the salt was put on hay for any other purpose 

 than to induce cattle to eat it. My father was accustomed to 

 sprinkle lime on his fodder to render it more edible. I have never 

 before heard that salt was employed for preserving hay. 



KEEPING FARM ACCOUNTS. 



Mr. S. Edwards Todd. — The success of a farmer will depend, in 

 a great measure, on the manner of keeping his accounts. Mer- 

 chants and men who are engaged in other occupations compute 

 their successes and failures by their accounts. Farmers should do 

 the same. Most fanners are too negligent about their accounts. 

 They are seldom able to give an accurate statement of what they 

 have done dming the year. To aid young farmers in keeping 

 accounts, two systems of keeping farm accounts were shown at the 

 Club, and the merits of each explained. They are admirably 

 adapted to the wants of common farmers. A farmer cannot do a 

 better thing for a son, or for himself, than to spend ten or twenty 

 minutes at the close of every day in recording cash accounts and 

 suggestions relative to his farming operations. Both the books 

 alluded to are very neatly gotten up, with ruled pages aud with 

 printed headings, so that each item may be recorded in its own 

 proper place. Brigham's system is calculated for keeping a farm 

 account for three successive years. Certain pages are appropriated 

 to live stock, so that a farmer can see at a glance the value of all 

 his domestic animals. 



The Club fully indorsed the propriety of keeping an account of 

 the products of the farm, aud of entering everything relating to 

 farming operations in the daily journal. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON HAY LOADER, 



The committee designated to report on the operation of Foust's 

 hay loader, stated that they went to Elizabeth, New Jersey, where 

 a working field model had been put in operation, and it affords 

 them pleasure to say that the machine performed its assigned task 

 with eminent satisfaction to all who saw it operate. They consider 

 it a valuable labor-saving machine, as the team that draws the 



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