PROCEEDII^GS OF THE FARMERS' CLUB. 



[ORGANIZED JUNE 22, 1843.] 



The Farmers' Club of the American Institute is under the direction and control of the 

 committee of agriculture . 



The meetings are held on the first a/id third Tuesdays of each month, at 12 o'clock M., 

 except the months of March, April and May, when they are held weekly, at the rooms of 

 the Institute, No. 351 BroadwajJ-. 



The meetings are free to the members of the Institute, and all other persons connected 

 with the pursuit of agriculture, or who may desire through this medium to diffuse inform- 

 ation on the subject of cultivation. 



The Club will be happy to receive written communications at its meetings on the subject 

 of agriculture, horticulture, the raising and improvement of stock, and chemistry applied 

 to agriculture. 



May bth, 185Y. 



Present — Messrs, Nicoll of Shelter Island, Francis Eobinson, 

 Pardee, Solon Robinson, Martin E. Thompson, John C. Montgo- 

 mery, Dr. Waterbury, Messrs. Darling and Stacey, Prof. Hildreth, 

 Messrs. Hathaway and Leonard, Prof Nash of Vermont, Mr. Geo. 

 C. Barney, Prof. James J. Mapes, Mr. Lawton of New Rochelle, 

 Messrs. John W. Chambers, Vail, Wagener, Judge R. S. Living- 

 ston and Mr. Livingston, and others, nearly forty members in all. 



President, Robert L. Pell, in the chair. Henry Meigs, Sec'y. 



The Secretary read the following translations, made by him, 

 from the works received by the Listitute since tlie last meeting, 

 viz: 



TREES IN IRELAND. 



By the return made to Parliament recently, by Mr. H. Hughes, 

 it appears that there have been registered with the clerks of the 

 peace, during the last ten years, 2,618,856 trees. 



