Proceedings of the Fae3[ees' Club. 587 



I made to the regions famous for tlie Philadelphia butter, and I can 

 bear witness to its excellence, and to the great neatness with which 

 all its processes were carried on. But, as a curious commentary on 

 the sj^stem of cold spring-houses, I may remark that I have seen but- 

 ter made beneatli a torrid sun by jerking the milk back and forward 

 in a goat skin hung between two sticks. As I remember it, the 

 quality was equal to that sold in the Quaker City. 



Grasses. 

 George W. Hammond, M. D., Bennett's Corners, N. Y. — Allow 

 me to say that your correspondent, K. P. Phelps, of Milford, Del., 

 is right in his statement that there is no difference between " Herd's 

 grass" and "Timothy" except in name. I was born and reared 

 upon a farm in New Hampshire, and have known "Herd's grass" 

 by name and sight for more than sixty years, as it has always been 

 called throughout the New England States. It has always been 

 said, and so stated by agricultural writers, to have received its name 

 " Herd's " from first attracting notice upon the farm of a Mr. Herd, an 

 early settler of Portsmouth, N. H. It is leas than fifty years since I 

 first heard the name " Timothy " applied to the same grass. In 1866 I 

 removed to Madison county, IST. Y., and are, as I always have been, 

 much engaged in farming, and here I find the farmers and seedsmen 

 know the same grass by both names. Herd's grass has not, as stated 

 by Mr. Meeker and Mr. Lyman, " a reddish, bushy head," but the 

 head is " roimd, small and firm," as it is described under that name 

 in "Gray's Botany," with the botanical name, '•'' Plileum Pratense^'' 

 or Cat's Tail grass, I am aware that the '''■Agrostis Vulgaris,^^ of 

 Gray, or " Ked Top," has been erroneously called Herd's grass in 

 some portions of Pennsylvania, but never in New England or 

 New York can the "Red Top" seed be obtained under that name. 



Dried Fruits for Market. 



Mr. C. H. Shipman, of Culpepper Court House, Va. — In the vicinity 

 of their home there are strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, and 

 the like, growing abundantly in the fields, and free for the picking. 

 Would it pay to gather and dry them for the city ? 



The Chairman. — It is scarcely possible to overstock the market, 

 provided the fruit be well put up. The demand is usually, I believe, 

 greater than the supply, and our friend would doubtless find the pro- 

 posed employment profitable, even if the prices obtained were much 

 lower than those wliich now prevail. 



