Proceedings of the Farmers' Club. 773 



kinds with which I am familiar, and I suppose erery kind of any merit 

 has been sent me for triaL 



Mr. J. B. Lyman. — I can fully indorse Mr. Fuller's views of the 

 grape business, which seem to me entirely correct. Our people want 

 more fruit, and especially more grapes. The large cities are the prin- 

 cipal markets, but scores of smaller cities and towns throughout the 

 land are large consumers, many of the New England towns receiving 

 large consignments of grapes from as far Avest as Sandusky and Kelly's 

 Island, As a general rule the early sorts pay largest and most regular 

 profits. I would say to our Batavia correspondent and others who 

 have good localities for growing grapes, that they may feel well 

 assured of satisfactory profits from a vineyard of early sorts v^ell cul- 

 tivated and well cared for. There is as much encouragement to plant 

 the Eumelan as any other of the new sorts. We are well assured of 

 its earliness ; also of its superior quality ; while its general reputation 

 for vigor, hardiness and productiveness should entitle it to the first 

 position among all varieties of recent introduction, and much prefer- 

 able to Hartford Prolific, Concord, and others of like class, which are 

 not better than second or third rate in quality. 



Dr. Isaac P. Trimble presented a report from the Committee on 

 JSTew Jersey Marl, which read as follows : " It will be remembered 

 that about a year ago the Squankum Marl Company of Monmouth 

 county J^. J., presented forty tons of their marl to this Club for dis- 

 tribution. Soon after the Pemberton Company of Burlington county 

 presented us fifty tons. The notice given by the reporters caused a 

 great number of applications for portions of this marl. Forty tons, 

 twenty for each company, was delivered at Jersey City. The remain- 

 ing fifty tons were left at Newark, N, J, A notice was published in a 

 Newark paper notifying farmers and gardners that they could have 

 small portions by calling for it. In a few daj's all was distributed, each 

 person leaving his name and address, and being required to promise 

 to make careful experiments and report results. Some have reported 

 verbally and some by letters ; of the last, I have three of most impor- 

 tance. The corn, potatoes and most otlier crops having been planted 

 before the marl was received, but a part was used at the time. Some 

 was applied on grass last fall and some this spring. Others who used 

 it at the time will probably reap more benefit this season than last. 

 For these reasons the present report can only be partial to the farmers 

 in the south half of New Jersey, Such a distribution of marl for 

 experimental purposes would have been useless. It has made its 



