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great value, employinp; now a lar^e iiuinbtr of our fannt-rs who make 

 enormous amounts for export, as well as home consumption; at a very 

 small expense to themselves ; Ihe difficulty has been and is yet, to make 

 a good article. It seems now by Mr. Wardle's statement, and by the 

 experience of many that good management, gives double value to our 

 cheese. The importance of pure arnotto to our dairies is great : adulter- 

 ation is so easy. 



As to the injurious insects, common salt is one remedy as far as it 

 can be applied, and it is also one for mildew. In England Dr. 

 Cartvvright applied a solution at the rate of 8 or 10 ounces of salt, in 

 one gallon of water on a wheat field in stripes, and all the stripes 

 sprinkled wilh'it proved entirely free from mildew, and the other 

 stripes not salted, all lost by it. 



Mr. Meigs, Arnotto as described by Lindley, in his great work, 

 the Vegetable Kingdom, is of his 110th order called Flacourtiacea — 

 Bixads. Almost all of them inhabit the hottest part of the East and 

 West Indies and Africa ; two or three at the Cape of Good Hope, 

 one or two in Zealand. The Bixa Orellana contains angular seeds, 

 covered with an orange red waxen pulp or pellicle ; this is the Ar- 

 notto. It is separated from the seeds by washing. It is chiefly used 

 in the preparation of chocolate, was reckoned an antidote to the 

 poison of the maniot or janipha manihot. 



Subject for next meeting — Insects, seeds, planting, grape vine, 

 Starr's exhibition of minute insects by his solar microscope. Adj. 



H. MEIGS, Sec'y. 



On reading Ihe recent law of New Jersey for the protection of that 

 class of birds which protect our vegetation from the ravages of cer- 

 tain insects, and after discussion had thereon : 



On motion of Richard T. Underbill, M. D.-of Croton Point, 



