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acre to the proprietor. Nothing else was wanting. Here was a 

 beautiful triumph of science. There was no doubt about the 

 facts ; the experiment came under our observation. 



America 

 JVew- York 



SRicAN Institute, ? 

 'c, July^ 29th, 1851. J 



My Dear Sir — I have seen in a newspaper a statement that you 

 had recently purchased a sterile farm, and by amending its soil, 

 by adding one inorganic constituent, which it had been deprived 

 of by cropping, you had reaped some twenty bushels of wheat per 

 acre where hardly any could be had before. 



This is so valuable an experiment that we cannot forbear re- 

 questing from you a statement of it fjr our Farmers' Club, for 

 ultimate publication in our Annual Report, published by the 

 State, for 1851, which we will take great pleasure in sending to 

 you, if acceptable. 



Your most obedient servant, 



H. MEIGS, 

 Secretary of the Farmers^ Club. 

 Hon. Reverdy Johnson. 



{Copy.) 



Baltimore, Slst July, 1851. 

 My Dear Sir — I have this moment yours of the 29th. The 

 experiment on my farm, to wjiich you refer, was fully stated in 

 the American Farmer of this city, and I will with pleasure send 

 you a copy as soon as I can get one from the editor. It will 

 gratify me to receive a set of your Farmers' Club Reports, which 

 you do me the honor to offer for my acceptance. 

 With regard, your obedient servant, 

 (Signed) REVERDY JOHNSON. 



H. Meigs, Esq., Secretary, ^r. Sfc, JVew-York. 



The Secretary read the following extracts : 



[From the London Farmers' Magazine, July, 1851.] 



Manures. — "As far back as 178-1, the ever inquiring and 

 indefatigable Arthur Young was employed on a series of 

 experiments on the comparative value of manures, in which 



