436 (Assembly 



Barley, 5,000 bush. 



Pumpkins, 30 tons. 



Solid headed cabbages, 108,000 



Chickens, 600 



Eggs, 1,200 doz. 



Onion seed, 800 lbs. 



Beet seed, 200 " 



Cabbage seed, 100 " 



md thus^ at a cost of about $50,000, producing a crop worth at 

 present prices some |200,000. 



After the reading of the deeply interesting papers from the 

 Western World Institute, on motion of Henry Meigs, seconded 

 by President Tallmadge, and others, the thanks of the Farmers' 

 Club were unanimously voted to Mr. Williams and to the Insti- 

 tute. The unequal size of many of the California vegetables ex- 

 cited great surprise and pleasure among the members. 



President Tallmadge proposed blue vegetable dye, as the next 

 •ubject for discussion. Unanimously adopted. 



The Club adjourned. 



At a previous meeting of the Club, Dr. Antisell is erroneously 

 made to say, " that there is no ammonia in the dung of a cow." 

 This every one knows to be an error. Dr. Antisell did not say 

 10, of course. H. Meigs, Secretary. 



American Institute, ) 



Farmers'' Club, Jan. 20, 1852. ] 



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

 Secretary. 



The Secretary read the following paper prepared by him : 

 LASTEYRIE'S TREATISE ON PASTEL OR WOAD. 



[TranslaUd by H. A. S. Dbarborx, 1S15.] 



Indigo had been, for the last century and a half, the only blue 

 dye, and a substitute for it was wanted in France, for the foreign 



