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who want to succeed in life should hasten at once. It is also a good, 

 locality for wheat and other cereals. 



The Chairman was glad to hear that there is a place where the 

 peach, of which, as he grows older, he grows fonder, is long lived. 



Mr. T, C. Peters said that in Virginia peach trees do not readily 

 die out. He had known them to bear well for a score of years or 

 more. 



Milk Pans. 



Mr. W. A. Shepard, of Randolph, IST. Y., wrote to know if zinc is 

 safe to use for pans to set milk in, and whether it would probably 

 last as long as tin for that purpose. 



Mr, T. C. Peters, an old dairyman of long experience, replied that 

 zinc makes a good pan, and there is no danger in using pans of this 

 material. 



Mr. J, A. "Whitney begged leave to disagree, and recommended 

 tin pans as much to be preferred. 



Mr. D. B. Bruen remarked that for the purpose indicated there is 

 nothing like glass. Pans made of this material will prevent the 

 contents being injured by the action of electricity ; and, though 

 they cost more at the outset, they are much the cheapest in the long 

 run. 



Mr, T. C. Peters confirmed this opinion, and stated that glass pans 

 are used in England with great success. 



Best Implements for Onion Cultuke. 



Mr. A. M. Knapp, of Poultney, Vt. — I am growing farm and gar- 

 den crops, and many of the necessary tools and implements are not 

 kept here, I want an onion- weeder, but do not like to send. money 

 for a thing I have not seen and which might be worthless. Have 

 any of your club used the Comstock hand cultivator and weeder? If 

 so, please report the results. I wish to know if it will pay to buy 

 this machine to cultivate one acre of onions annually. I have been 

 trying to get the Ilexamer prong hoe, but do not find it here or in 

 Troy. 



The Chairman. — That prong hoe is one of the best implements I 

 have ever used, and it ought to be more generally known. 



Mr. J. B. Lyman. — If he has an acre of onions, I advise him to get 

 the best hand cultivator there is. I am not prepared to recommend 

 Comstock's as better than others, but it is good enough. The great 

 onion-growers of Wethcrsfield, who have produced the best crops of 



