3i^8 Tn A NS ACTIONS OF 'J UK American Institute. 



Mr. J. Y. C. Smitli moved a vote of thanks to Mr. Williams, for 

 }iis able and erudite paper. This was seconded and carried. 



Report on Weight Power. 

 The committee, consisting of Messrs. Todd, Lyman and Thompson, 

 appointed at the last meeting of the Chib, to report on a weight 

 power exhibited by Mr, Y. B. Rowley, of Worcester, New York, 

 after describing the action and principle of the contrivance, come to 

 a conclusion as follows : Your committee may be allow' ed to say^ that 

 the principle employed in that ])ower seems to be mechanically cor- 

 rect. Its future success will depend on the proj^er construction of 

 the' various parts. And, lest some beginner sliould be misguided by 

 our suggestions, it may be proper for us to give a few suggestions of 

 well-known principles in natural philosophy. Every person should 

 keep in mind the law of force and motion, that after a man has 

 wound up a heavy weight, that weight will not render him any more 

 available power for churning, or for anything else, than he expended 

 in winding it up. If, for example, he has five gallons or more of 

 milk, or cream to churn, it would require an exertion equal to lifting 

 from 2,000 to 4,000 pounds to work the churn twenty minutes or 

 half an hour. Therefore, after a man or boy has wound this weight 

 up a few times, to do the churning, it is probable that he will feel 

 very much disposed to try the old way once more. Yet, with one to 

 three gallons of cream and a revolving churn, it might be well to try 

 a weight power. But let every person test such a power one month 

 before he purchases — as we have seen weight powers make a lively 

 splashing with a churn filled with water, but as soon as cream was 

 introduced, the power M^as quite insufficient to work the churn. 

 There is as much difference between churning cream and water as 

 between a goblet of common water and a dish of ice cream of a hot 

 day in August. 



Planting Yellow Locust. 



Mr. T. C. Peters read the following paper : 



To those farmers wdio think of starting a grove of the yellow locust, 

 now is the time to prepare seed for propagating the plant. It is 

 much the wisest and best way to start the plant in a nursery, and 

 next spring to transplant to the intended grove. It is a valuable 

 tind)er to grow, but the borer has become so troublesome in the older 

 sections of the counti-v that it will be advisable to start the planta- 



