PROCEEWNGvS OF THE FAEMEES' CLUB 



BE-POaiTORT OF THE AmERIC^'.N iFSTirr TR, 



351 Broadway, .^i-u- York. 



The Farmers' Olub is an organization of the Institute tinder 

 the direction and control of its Board of Agriculture ; a meet- 

 ing of which is held at the Repository on the first and third Tues- 

 days of each month, at 12 o'clock, M. Its meetings aie open and 

 free to all the members of the Institute and all other persons con- 

 nected with the pursuit of Agriculture, or who may desire through 

 its medium to diJBTuse information on the subject of cultivation. 



The <liscu3sions at the Club are mainly confined to subjects be- 

 longing to general Agriculture, Horticulture, Floriculture, Pomo- 

 logy, and chemical developments pertaining to these pursuits. 

 Written communications on any of these subjects are alyays 

 thankfully received by the Agent of the Institute and laid before 

 the Club. Gentlemen from all parts of the Union or from loreign 

 countries are invited to attend. Translations from foreign Jour- 

 nals and other works are always acceptable and will be published. 



The Farmers- Club of the American Institute was organized in 

 1843. and held its first meeting on the 22d of June in that year. 

 The conversations and discussions at the Club are necessarily of- 

 ten desultoiy, as it is the object of the members of the Institute 

 to diffuse useful information on the subjects of Agriculture, Com- 

 merce', Manufactures, aud the Arts, among their fellow men. 



