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because it seems remarkable that a farm that produces $4,000 

 value of crops can be carried on, including interest, for $1,000. 



The Chairman — The farm I alluded to last year produced 

 $12,000 worth of crops sold, and the expense, without interest, 

 was only $3,000. And there is no doubt that the same result 

 might be obtained from a hundred other farms in the vicinity of 

 New- York. One of the reasons that farmers do not make more 

 out of their labor is for the want of suitable tools. I don't know 

 of scarcely a single garden where there is a sufl5.ciency of proper 

 tools. Many farmers do not know what tools are really necessary 

 for them to have to make their labor profitable- 

 Judge Meigs — I move that at the next meeting, which will be 

 the first Tuesday of June, we discuss the best method of putting 

 seeds in the ground. 



The Chairman — Let that be added to the present questions of 

 what are the most profitable crops and best rotations. 



The weekly meetings of the Club were adjourned to June 2nd, 

 1857. H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



June 2, 1857. 



Present — Messrs. Ira B. Underbill, of Jersey, Prof. Mapes, Mr. 

 Webster, Mr. Stacey, Mr. Leonard, Mr. Heckrotte, Mr. Chambers, 

 Thomas W. Field, of Brooklyn, Mr. Pardee ,Mr. Solon Robinson, 

 Hon. John G.Bergen and Mr. Adrian Bergen, of Long Island, and 

 others — thirty one members. 



Mr. J. B. Underbill in the chair. Henry Meigs, Secretary. 



The Secretary observed, that by every steamer from Europe we 

 receive, gratis, from England, France,'Russia and Austria, valuable 

 journals of the most recent discoveries and improvements in agri- 

 culture and mechanics. He read the following extracts and 

 translations made by him, viz : 



PLANTING SEEDS. 



We translate from the great national work of France " Maison 



Rustique," (Farm house.) Few if any lessons in agriculture are 



as carefully made up in the last hundred years, as good as these. 



We therefore have pleasure in translating them for our use here. 



