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at the same time be simple and cheap ? Would it be a benefit to 

 dip the bunches in boiling lime water? 



Mr. J. B. Lyman. — You cannot do a better thing to those shingles, 

 Mr. Smith, and this is the reason why. Cedar shingles have a pecu- 

 liar sourish, woody smell. A soaking in lime water would mostly 

 destroy that. If the lime water is boiling, it has two effects, killing 

 the acidity and stiffening the albumen in the wood. This albumen 

 it is that supports mold and the mosses. Cook that, and your roof 

 will not be mossy. Boiling in lime water makes the meanest shingle 

 as good as the best. It helps chestnut amazingly, and this sour 

 smelling red oak. Then, if afterward you give the roof a good coat 

 of tar paint, it will be likely to outlast all the men that worked on it. 



Westchester Black Cap IIaspberky. 



Mr. L. J. Mabee, Tarrytown, IT. Y., exhibited specimens of the 

 Westchester Black Cap Raspberry, 



Messrs, Trimble, Cavanagh and Todd were appointed a committee 

 to report on the same. 



Grass Seed Sifter. 



Mr. Isaac Baldwin, Antrim, N. H., exhibited a grass seed sifter, 

 which he wished examined in operation. 



Messrs. Todd, Carpenter and Lyman were appointed a committee 

 to examine. 



CoRif Cultivator. 

 Messrs. Kent, Baldwin & Co., Middlebury, Summit county, Ohio, 

 sent for examination one of their improved corn cultivators, which 

 was referre<Ito Messrs. Quinn, Bruen and Carpenter to test its qualities 

 and report. 



A Patent Wheel. 

 Messrs. Monk & Williams, of New York city, exhibited a wheel of 

 novel construction, and which seemed to possess some advantages. 

 The hub is of gun or malleable iron, into which the spokes are dove- 

 tailed. The inventors claim that if a spoke is broken a new one can 

 be substituted without removing or cutting the tire ; further, that 

 there is no chance to knock the dish out, or cause it to become more 

 dishing, and lastly, that the wheel can never be rim-bound. 



Adjourned. 



