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directed efforts this deficiency might not only be met, but leave 

 a considerable surplus, her soil being better fitted for corn. New- 

 York and some other states, if they have fallen ofi" in wheat as 

 largely a«? some pretend, it is not owing so much to the impov- 

 erishment of their soils as their people's turning their attention 

 to other branches of agriculture, as paying better than wheat, 

 such a breadth of surface has not been planted with it. In the 

 patent office reports, the number of acres are not put dowm, that 

 I could find, it is only the amount or quantity of each state in the 

 various agricultural products of the nation. 



Prof. Mapes. — Mr. Van Wyck, forgets that these statistics of 

 the patent office do not give us the product per acre. Allen, of 

 Buffalo, stated, and he was responded to by Delafield and the 

 committee of the State Society on crops, that the New- York yield 

 of wheat per acre, on an average, was now but twelve bushels 

 and a half. 



The Professor introduced a number of gentlemen, delegates to 

 the fair of the Horticultural Society of New-Jersey, 24th, 25th, 

 26th and 27th of September instant, who invited members of the 

 Club and Institute to be present, at Jersey City. 



Mr. Platt, of Brooklyn. — Gentlemen : — Having solicited the 

 appointment of a committee on your part to visit our model 

 Apiary, now in operation in Brooklyn, and having presented to 

 you some specimens of honey made there, you wall allow me to 

 state some of the objects of Mr. Gilmore's invention, and the ad- 

 vantages claimed by him in the management of bees. 



The object of his invention is the better and more successful 

 employment of the industrious habits of the honey bee. This is 

 efiected, as in all other industrial enterprises, hj multiplying the 

 hands, giving them a full supply of the raw material, and so ar- 

 ranging the fixtures that the whole force of the operators may 

 be directed and applied in the most economical manner, as it re- 

 gards time and labor. It is evident to all that a saving of time 

 is as important to the bee as to man. A bee that is not compelled 

 to fly away to procure food and materials can do (other things 

 being equal) much more in a day than a bee that has to range 



