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. rails, &c. of great varieties and in fine taste. He affords a fence 

 four feet and a half high with fine rails secured by screws at one 

 dollar a rod^excluding the posts. One of seven rails at $1 ,33 per 

 rod. 



Mr. Fleet i-eminded members in reference to our native vvhit^ 

 Clover. That much tilling of the soil improves the growth of 

 it, that it willj without culture, come up almost every where 

 spontaneously. 



Prof. Mapes proposed for the next meeting ^Vlieat as the sub- 

 ject. Unanimously adopted. 



The club then adjourned to Tuesday the 6th of July next at 

 noon. 



There was no meeting held in July. a. c, 



Fahmkhs^ Club , f 

 August 3, 1852. I 



Alauson Nash, Esq.. in the Chair. Henry Meigs, Secretary. 



The secretary said, that the subject of the day was wheat. It 

 was postponed by Professor Mapes, who is abj^eut in consequence 

 of the lamented and sudden death of his brother, major Charles 

 Mapes. That he, the secretary, has been greatly pleased with the 

 recent work of one of tlie most learned men of the day, Metzger 

 of Germany, (an intimate friend of our Professor Enderlin,) on 

 the subject of wheat ; — he then read the following translated by 

 him. 



Maison Kustiqae, the Farm Hoose. (from Vattemare.) 



Professor Mapes has proposed wheat as a sul>ject for discussion 

 to-day. This is always interesting and ever will be, for it is the 

 first of the gifts of God to man, of the three corn, wine and oil. 



"We call grain. Cereals, as the ancients constituted Ceres, the 

 goddess of grain. These cereals comprehend wheat, rye, barley, 

 oats, rice, millet, sorgho (resembling brown corn), alpiste, a grain, 

 resembling dog grass, darnel, floating festuca, and buckwheat, do 

 not belong to the family, although generally included in the list. 



