Proceedings of the Farmers' Club. 803 



Mr. Horace Greeley. — Tlie only trouble about wood ashes is we 

 cannot get enough of them. I buy all that I can get. On any warm, 

 dry, gravelly soil they are worth for use at least twenty-five cents a 

 bushel. It is idle to deny they are of no use when every farmer 

 uses all he can get, and would buy more if possible. 



Mr. II. L. Keade. — I happen to have connection with a manufac- 

 tory where we burn about 300 cords of hard wood a year, and we 

 put the ashes on 140 acres of poor sandy land. I have there seen 

 the most astonishing results from them. I would gladly pay twenty- 

 five cents a bushel and haul them twenty miles. 



Dr. Isaac P. Trimble, — How much do you put on an acre ? 



Mr. II. L. Keade. — About 130 bushels on the 140 acres. From 

 comparatively worthless land it had been made valuable. 



Prof. J. A. "Whitney. — If some means could be devised of disinte- 

 grating feldspar, an abundance of potash could be cheaj^ly derived. 



Large Cheese Yield. 

 Mr. L.- S. Farmer, Center ville, N. Y.— D. W. Cole in 186S made 

 1,200 pounds of cheese from two cows, and ITO pounds of butter, all 

 of which he sold for $269.40, besides using butter cream, &c., in his 

 family : also fattening pork on the whey. He fed on shorts and man- 

 gold wurtzel, and cut hay in first blow. The cheese was made at a 

 factory. 



Adjourned. 



