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man ; how poorly cattle and other stock are fed compared with those 

 of the north. Great efforts have long ago been made to make clover 

 grow there in vain ; it will not bear the severe heat,&c. About three 

 years ago, Governor Brown, of Florida, received from the Patent office 

 some clover seeds from Chili. He planted them, but had no expecta- 

 tion of success, notwithstanding he is most agreeably disappointed, for 

 this Chili clover sustains the severities of the climate and flourishes ; 

 he justly considers this to be a means of adding greatly to the wealth 

 of Florida. 



The Secretary reminded the club of the very singular difference 

 of climate production, vegetable and animal, between the northern and 

 southern hemispheres. That it is strangely observed that plants flow- 

 er in open air, when the temperature by Fahrenheit is several de- 

 grees below 32° the freezing point ; strange forms of animals are 

 found in Australia. That it is observed that some diseases of the 

 northern hemisphere never appear in the southern ; that it has been 

 observed by our learned friends, Redfield and others, that gales pro- 

 ceed in opposite motions in the respective hemispheres, circling from 

 south, northerly in our hemisphere, and from north, southerly in the 

 southern half. 



Thus it appears that a southern clover will flourish in the northern 

 tropics, while our northern clover will not. 



The secretary read an article from the Paris Agriculture, relation to 

 crop of sesame in Algeria. It states that an acre well cultivated, will 

 yield eighteen hundred pounds of the grain ; which yields nine hun- 

 dred pounds of oil. That it is destined soon to supply all nothem 

 Europe with oil. 



President Tallmadge, intimated some months ago, that observations 

 upon the subject of diseases in the two hemispheres, inclined him to 

 suppose, there were diseases in each not capable of propagation in the 

 other. That cholera had not yet crossed the equatorial hne, from 

 north to south. 



