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application of a dressing of this kind of fertilizing material. At 

 Manchester, a smart little village about fifty miles from New York 

 city, where there are about twenty thousand acres of as good unim- 

 proved land as the State afibrds, lai*ge quantities of marl are 

 employed, and it is found to be the most efficient and the cheapest 

 fertilizer that can be employed. When Irish potatoes are planted, 

 about one quart of pulverized marl is deposited in every hill, and 

 the result is said to be most satisfactory in the production of fine 

 tubers. Adjourned. 



October 15, 1867. 



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



hunger's patent dumplng wagon. 



The Chair announced that a new dumping wagon was at the 



door, and he appointed a general committee to go out and examine 



it and report. This was known as Hunger's patent. 



The main device consists of rollers on the forward and hind, 

 bolsters; hooks hold the wagon bed in place, but when unhooked, 

 and the horse backs, the reach, having a hinge in the middle, rises, 

 the wheels approach each other, and the wagon box is turned up 

 the same as a cart body. When the horse starts up, the wagon 

 returns to a natural position. The committee were decidedly of the 

 opinion that it is a simple and important improvement, useful on 

 any farm. The cost of such an attachment is ten dollars. 



COTTON-WOEMS FLAX MANUFACTURES. 



A letter was read from Mrs. Mary F. Trust, of this city, giving 

 an account of the ravages of the cotton-worm in Florida. 



The Chair. — If cotton has so many enemies as we hear of, we 

 have an article in the North suitable to making cloth, not subject to 

 such disasters. I hold in my hand a sample of fine towels, made by 

 Whiteside Brothers, at Moodna, Orange county, N.Y. I am informed 

 they are the first articles of the kind made in this country on power 

 looms, and spun by machinery. This is a new enterprise, destined 

 to work great changes. You see the excellent quality of the 

 goods, and the fine finish. I well remember when flax used to sell 

 from seven to eight cents a pound; now it is from twenty to twenty- 

 five cents, with an unlimited demand. It is amazing that farmers 

 do not watch their chances. We must, by no means, lose sight of 



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