Proceedings of the Farmer^ Club, ' 319. 



are emitted from the filthy holds: of thci vessels which ajre laden 

 with flour. M rjfft ••} ij;!lif((H .mj'iv « vl'ifc'j/i i».i 0-4/ ul 



Mr. Solon Robinson. — I have always observed that those flour 

 sacks are in excellent request among dealers in flour. They will 

 always pay a liberal price for them, if those who purchase the flour 

 will return them. The inference is, that the sacks which were 

 branded with a California trade-mark, are again filled with Northern 

 flour, and sold for California flour, at a high price. 



Mr. S. Edwards Todd. — I have been accustomed to purchase the 

 California wheat for my own family, after the grain has been run 

 through the smut machine. My boys then grind about a pound 

 or two, as it is needed, in a little hand-mill, like a large cofiee-mill. 

 The coarse meal is then soaked in tepid water ten to twelve hours, 

 after which it is boiled for two hours, as we cook rice. This makes 

 a kind of mush, which is served with butter and sugar, or sirup 

 and butter, or cream and sugar, to suit the taste and convenience. 

 We fiud that wheat cooked in this manner makes a most healthful 

 and agreeable dish. Everybody likes it. There is a great deal of 

 nourishment in it. Such food will supply the waste of the brain, 

 as well as the wear and tear of the body. Besides this, it is a very 

 economical kind of food. But I think the New Jersey wheat is 

 quite as good for this purpose as the California wheat, which costs 

 me ninety cents per peck of fifteen pounds. 



REPORT ON BRINCKERHOFF's OORN-SHELLER. 



The committee on Brinckerhofi"'s corn-sheller report that, on the 

 28th of October, they met at the residence of J. H. Macy, of Rye, 

 "Westchester county, N. Y., where one man shelled a heaping 

 bushel of ears of corn, just husked, in three minutes and twenty- 

 five seconds, by the watch, in the first trial ; and in the second trial, 

 one heaping bushel of dry ears was shelled in three minutes and 

 twenty seconds, one man turning moderately with one hand, and 

 feeding with the other. The ears were the small eight-rowed 

 yellow corn, and the grain was very damp. A bushel of large 

 ears could be shelled in less time than was required to shell the 

 small ears. 



The cobs were turned out on one side of the sheller, neatly 

 stripped of every kernel of grain; the chafi" passed through the 

 sieve to the floor, and the clean corn, ready for market, was deliv- 

 ered in a half-bushel measure. 



