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in Westchester county, where I reside, where the proprietors have 

 been obliged to spend more than one hundi-ed dollars per acre to 

 remove the stones, and then they did not get them all out. After 

 this they were obliged to ditch the land, incurring another 

 expensive outlay. This might do if they were not required to 

 manure the laud after removing the stones and draining it. But 

 the soil wants as much manure there as in New Jersey, where, with 

 the same cultivation, the light soils will produce the heaviest crops 

 in the shortest time, and with less hard work. 



Mr. F. E. Bradshaw. — I saw large fields of heavy clover at 

 Wiuslow, that would yield three tons of good hay per acre, on 

 light sandy loam-soil, which proves conclusively that red clover 

 will grow satisfactorily on light soils. 



Mr. S. B. Nichols. — At Hammonton, we never experience any 

 difficulty in securing a good catch of red clover, by simply applying 

 a dressing of marl to the soil. 



Dr. Trimble. — I have been, the past week, to the " jumping-off 

 place" in New Jersey, and I was surprised to see the immense 

 crops of clover that are grown there with marl. We can see the 

 marl amon<>: the grrovvino- clover on the surface of the land. 



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Dr. J. E. Suodgi-ass. — I can testify to the truthfulness of what 

 has been said here about marl and red clover. Clover is a won- 

 derful fertilizer. Down on the old worn-out land of Maryland and 

 Virginia, a dressing of marl and a sprinkling of the raw-bone fer- 

 tilizer or guano will always produce a bountiful crop of clover; and 

 if farmers can grow heavy clover, they are prepared to raise other 

 crops. The great secret of the successful agriculture among Penn- 

 sylvania farmers at the present time, is their clover crop. Take 

 away their red clover and you disconcert all their plans for future 

 operations. Show me good clover, and I will show you good 

 farming. 



KANSAS GRASSHOPPER. 



Mr, Shaw, Chicago, III., showed a Kansas grasshopper, preserved 

 in alcohol. He stated that these insects exist there in untold num- 

 bers. This one, he said, is a young one. But even this one was 

 very large, and much longer and thicker than any grasshoppers that 

 are seen in this part of the country. 



REMEDY FOR THE STRIPED BUG. 



Mr. E. D. Wood, South Butler, N. Y., mforms the Club that he 

 has discovered a certain and never-failing remedy for the striped 

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