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ments in the stables are well worthy of a passing notice. The stalls 

 are spacions, the ventilation good, with a spacious feed room in front 

 of the manger, ha\dng a firm cement floor. Into this room a stream 

 of cool water is conducted from the hills, and also into the open yard. 

 Behind the horses is a water-tight gutter, which conveys all the 

 liquid manure to a large reservoir in the garden. The fine plants of 

 all kinds assured us that no plant-food is lost. Everything is under 

 cover. On opening a door in a small apartment there was a row of 

 hens, each sitting in a separate box, where no other fowls could 

 molest them. They are not allowed to go out of doors during the 

 period of incubation. Consequently, no hen is in danger of being 

 broken up when she is sitting on eggs that cost many dollars per 

 dozen. I was told of one farmer in that vicinity who actually sold 

 a number of eggs at twenty-two dollars per dozen. 



Mr. A. S. Fuller. — I would like to inquire how much income Mr. 

 Carpenter returns from his farm, and where he made the money. This 

 is a subject that comes back to us practical cultivators. This story to 

 which we have listened is all very fine, but pray favor us with figures. 



The Chairman. — As for myself I must confess I have never been 

 able to raise a bushel of potatoes at a cost less than double the market 

 rates, but I judge Mr. Carpenter's experience has been difi'erent. 



Dr. Isaac P. Trimble. — I have been an attendant of this Club, off 

 and on, for a good many years, and I have never ceased to listen 

 respectfully to the voluminous praises of Westchester county. And 

 now we have just had another ration. I think the subject ought to 

 be investigated, and I would like to be one of a committee of fifty 

 to make a foray and find out. 



Potatoes feom Mississippi. 



Judge Burwell sent a few tubers, grown in Yicksburgh, Miss., 

 on and near the old earthworks and battle-grounds of the memorable 

 siege. They were mostly planted by negroes, about the 20th of 

 February. Specimens were handed to Messrs. Todd, Lyman, Cran- 

 dell, "Whitney and others, who had them boiled for breakfast next 

 morning, and pronounce them equal, in table qualities, to the best 

 northern potatoes. This shoAvs that New York and other northern 

 cities will soon have their potato supply in June and a part of July 

 from the war wasted fields of the far south. They were of large 

 size and fine appearance, and of the pink-eye and Eussell varieties. 



Mr. J. W. Gregory said he had experimented with potatoes in the 



