514 Traxsactjoxs of the American Institute. 



dynamic power. It is often inserted in the breasts of liorses to cure 

 glandular diseases about tlie throat. 



Great Yield of Potatoes. 

 Mr. C. Simons, Bloom, Wood county, Ohio. — I took just one pound 

 of Early Kose (four tubers), and cut them in about fifty pieces, one 

 eye to each piece, and put them in a box to sprout about the 1st of 

 May, transplanted them (260 sprouts) between the 1st of June and 

 4th of July, putting one sprout in each hill, in a rich sandy soil, and 

 produced, by actual weight, 751 pounds, or twelve and one half bush- 

 els of good large potatoes, the heaviest weighing two pounds seven 

 ounces, and from the best hill (one sprout) I got six pounds four 

 ounces large potatoes ; the hills were one by two feet apart, and from 

 one piece of ground sixteen by eighteen, I got 285 pounds, at the 

 rate of about 760 bushels to the acre. 



How TO Keep Cauliflower. 



Mr. J. M. Sterling, of Kiantone, Chautauqua county, N. Y., wrote 

 to inquire concerning the preservation of this vegetable during the 

 winter, and he would also know, " can they be preserved for spring 

 use?" 



Mr. P. T. Quinn. — They can be kept during the early part of win- 

 ter by covering the roots and part of the stock with soil in the cellar, 

 or in frames imder glass or boards. I have kept them as we do Savoy 

 cabbage, that is, making a trench twelve inches, and covering the 

 stalk and part of the head with earth. Then place four or five inches 



of hay or straw over the surfiice. 



Adjourned. 



October 19, 1869, 



. Nathan C. Ely, Esq., ia the chair. 



POUDRETTE. 



Mr. Arthur Vickers, Coaticooke, Province of Quebec, Canada, 

 solicited information as to the proper mode of preparing night-soil 

 for agricultural purposes. The information will be, he says, of great 

 value to the people of his section. 



Mr. J. B. Lyman.— It is easy to say that muck will answer, which 

 is true, or that garden soil M'ill answer, which is equally true ; but 

 doubtless the simplest and most convenient and best thing is chip 

 manure — an article which most farmers have in abundance. When 



