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And more of tlie birds. The crop of a pheasant is found full of 

 wire worms. The lapwing eats 100 a day. 



Experiment on an acre with the following manures, and the 

 results by Right Hon. Thomas Pemberton Leigh, of Kent. 



WHEAT. 



bush . gal. 



No. 1. 30 cart loads barn yard manure, c£4 10 40 6 



" 2. Peruvian guano, 2 4 40 6 



" 3. Rape dust, 112 6 38 3' 



" 4. Urate, 112 6 38 5 



" 5. Super-phosphate of lime, 2 4 9 53 5 



" 6. No dressing, 29 2 



The Club unanimously ordered the murat's plume to be put in 

 the charge of Peter B. Mead, Esq., for cultivation, and one of the 

 Jenkin's summer pippins, also that he may have its imitation by 

 the Mr. Glover. 



The subject for next meeting. The introduction to our gardens 

 and farms of new and useful plants. The club then adjourned. 



H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



September 28fh, 1862. 

 Rev. Joseph Carter, of Brooklyn, in the Chair. Henry Meigs, 

 Secretary. 



The secretary read the following extracts and translations made 

 by him. The one I am about to read was made last June, from 

 the Revue Horticole of Paris, June. This work is, with other 

 valuable periodicals, regularly received by the Institute. A brief 

 translation of the article appears in the London Farmers' Maga. 

 zine for the present month, September. The article is interesting 

 as it relates to a new species of potato, which, on trial, so far, 

 seems free from disease. 



Revue Horticolcj PariSj June^ 1852. 



POTATO FROM MEXICO. 



Last September I received, as President of the Agricultural 

 Class of the Society of Arts at Geneva, a communication wliich 



