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The subject Of the relative value of mineral manures and 

 AJgfe was continued. 



A large pan calculated to hold milk was presented for exami- 

 nation. It is of iron, covered by heat with a planish of dark 

 gray color, said to be equal to any earthen or glass ware, while it 

 is vastly superior to either of them in strength. It is a French 

 invention, patented here. Messrs. Hodges k, Co., have the sale 

 of it. Tlie union of wrought iron strength with glass surface is 

 calculated to remind us of the supposed malleable glass of old 

 times. 



We should fee glad to see here samples of all the best and pre- 

 mium machines, and to keep them here for future comparison, so 

 that, if their inventors choose it, they can annually exhibit for 

 the premium until a better one comes to supplant it. 



The Club adjourned to the first Tuesday in December. 



H. Meigs, Secretary^^ 



American Institute, ) 

 Farmers' Club^ Dec. 2, 1851. ] 



Chancellor M'Couu was named as Chairman, but not having 

 time to spare for the sitting, Lewis G. Morris was chosen Chair- 

 man, Henry Meigs, Secretary. 



The Secretary read the following papers prepared by him : 



[From the Journal of the Highland and Agricul. Society of Scotland — Quarterly. — Oct. 1851.] 



The Fruits of America — Jipple and Peach. — The old apple coun- 

 try of the United States, the home of the Pippin, the Spitzenberg, 

 and other highly prized varieties, is on the Atlantic border, be- 

 tween Massachusetts Bay and the Delaware. But Western New- 

 York and Northern Ohio have now entered into earnest compe- 

 tition with these old districts and threaten to bear away the 

 palm. By its residents, the new apple country is regarded the 

 finest fruit country in the w^^rld. The mollifying influence of 

 Lake Ontario, wdiicii never freezes as Lake Erie does, extends 

 more or less over the whole level, or slightly undulating region, 



