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especially when they travel ; (he Englisli oftf n procure it from 

 them and mix milk and sugar wilh it. They save green sweet 

 corn by boiling and then drying, ivhich keeps it till wanted. 



Fet I have much more to say of gardens, as a match for grana- 

 ries. Colewort?, cabbages, roots of all sorts, rapes, turnips, car- 

 rots, parsnips, skirrets, (the sium sisarum of Lindney,) and 

 potatoes do challenge the procedure before granaries. They jjre 

 a kind of under ground granary and do often hold out when corn 

 failgth. The Spanish potatoes require diligent culture. They are 

 called glander malaceuses, being brought from Vojez ?^Ialaga, a 

 j^rovince in America. More than a dozen of ;]}eir huge Spanish 

 ships were brought at one time to Sevile (Seville) in Spain, fully 

 freighted with these potatoes, and were soon dispersed all over 

 Spain. The club then adjourpcd. 



H, MEIGS, Secretary. 



Farmers^ Clal—Jiugust 1 7, 1 852. 



Colonel A. 0. IIi:nghton, of Rahway, Mew Jersey, in the Chair. 

 Henry Meigs, Secretary. 



Colonel Houghton observed that he ha4j in common with oth- 

 er citizen?, been deeply impresstd with the sad condition of the 

 potatoe crop all over the world, and, like many others, had made 

 the prevention of it a subject of much tliought and experiment 

 too. Being appointed one of a committee to investigate, about 

 seven years' ago, he had assiduously endeavored to find out both 

 the cause and a preventive. > 



After trying various plans he at length (.when the disease ap- 

 peared in the tops of his potatoes decided on pulling the tops up, 

 leaving the potatoes in the ground, in order (as he reasoned) to 

 prevent the disease going down through the stalks to the potatoes,) 

 and then leaving them there for three weeks. This plan suc- 

 ceeded, for he found that whrn he had pulled up the stalks ajnd 

 then dng up the potatoes a few days after, .they rotted, but after 

 lying three weeks he found theia sound, and that they kept sound 

 when stored away in a proper dry place. His neighbors were 



