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printed for the security of the good but jealous farmer. After 

 the analysis they adulterate with marl, Lc. 



The urine of cities is all wasted. Sewerage should provide 

 tliat it be run upon masses of carbonate, which mixed with it, is 

 easily managed for transportation to the lands. The animal mat- 

 ter in it is very valuable, as well as the phosphate of lime. In 

 Aberdeen, Scotland, the sew^erage is adapted to this purpose, and 

 each human being is valued at two shillings and nine pence per 

 head, or about five shillings of New-York currency. 



Subjects for next meeting — Phosphate of Lime, Draining, and 

 the proper way to teach agriculture. 



Adjourned to Tuesday next, at noon. 



H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



(The following letter from General Dearborn was duly received 

 and read to the Club. • We publish it as containing a merited com- 

 pliment to an esteemed friend and co-laborer, as well as valuable 

 suggestions on matters pertaining to the diffusion of agricultural 

 intelligence. The idea of appropriating Mount Vernon as a 

 national agricultural school and garden of plants, meets the most 

 cordial approbation of tlie Club.] 



Hawthorn Cottage, ^ 



Roxhury^ Masa., May 7t/i, 1851. ^ 



My Dear Sir, — During the past four or five months, I have oc- 

 casionally received — and I presume from you — numbers of the 

 newspaper called the " .A^etc-- For/cf r," containing accounts of the 

 proceedings of the Farmers' Club, and have been deeply interested, 

 and derived very valuable information, from the statements which 

 have been made, at your weekly meetings, in relation to the 

 numerous departments of rural economy. 



It is thus instruction is concentrated, and then diffused, over the 

 whole country; and you are eminently entitled to the thanks of all 

 your agricultural colaborers, for the efficient services, which you 



