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crop liad not been injured by the heavy rain of Avigust, the pro- 

 duct would have been an hundred fold. Mr. Guillerez tried 

 them as forage — he cut them off twice, and they grew to the 

 height of four feet." 



It is now some years since we recommended the cultivation of 

 the lentil, in our Farmers' Club meeting. We were Induced to 

 do it in consequence of the representations made by a distinguished 

 officer of our government, who had suffered from dyspepsia for 

 many years, had seen a Parisian account of the wonderful cures 

 performed in Par!s by a new vegetable medicine called Erva 

 Lenic, which he bought at a dollar a package of about a quarter 

 of a pound, eat as directed in the form of a porridge, and got per- 

 fectly well. On some investigation, we learned that this famous 

 medicine was flour of lentils. We sought for the lentils, found 

 some at a grocer's, whose stout healthy appearance caused us to 

 ask if he lived on lentils. He replied to us that he sent to Ger- 

 many for them for his own use, and had been restored by them 

 to sturdy health from a wretchedly low condition. He then sold 

 some of them to us at ten cents a quart. We distributed them 

 frequently among the members of the Club, at their meetings, 

 accounts of which are contained in our transactions published by 

 the State. We would renew our earnest recommendation to 

 Young America, to add to her noble stock of vegetable worth the 

 mess of pottage of the unfortunate Esau. It is partially intro- 

 duco-d into Europe — more in Germany than anywhere else. 



Professor Mapes requested Mr. Coon, of Troy, to speak as to 

 his method of making fences of iron. He adverted to the enor- 

 mous expense of our wooden fences, and the vast importance of a 

 perfect system of iron fencing, &c. 



Mr. Coon described his method- The first plan was to secure 

 a method of compensation for the expansion and contraction of 

 the iron rails by heat and cold. This he finds by alternating the 

 rails, which being secured by nuts on the screw at each end ol 

 a rail, the space of the post occupied by each end yields sufiicient- 

 ly. The iron post passes through a cast iron box, which is firmly 

 set in the earth, and well tempered. Each post is stayed by barSj 



