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Why, because our men, and women, store their minds with the 

 frivolities of the age — light literature, low theatricals, base poli- 

 tics, and the result is a degenerating issue. 



" Like produce* like." 



Solon Robinson proposed for discussion at the next meeting, 

 " Threshing. Is that done by the flail unthrifty 1 Where and 

 when is it good husbandry to thresh with machines 1 And what 

 power is most economical for that purpose '?" 



By Solon Robinson — " The Grindstone, its uses and abuses." 



Members were requested to bring to the Spring weekly meet- 

 ings of the Club, on every Tuesday at noon, such of their choicest 

 seeds as they can spare, to exchange for others Such seeds are 

 reliable and are valued, and he who brings only one sort may 

 take several sorts away. 



The Club adjourned. H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



March 9, 1855. 



Present — President Pell, Solon Robinson, Asher L. Smith, of 

 Lebanon, Conn., Messrs. Fuller, Livingston, Brower, Pardee, 

 Chambers, Leonard, Dr. Waterbury, Prof. Youmans, Lawton, 

 Dr. Wellington, Dr. Smith, and others — 47 in all. 



President Pell, in the chair. Henry Meigs, Secretary. 



The Secretary called the attention of members to the very in- 

 teresting discoveries in Southern Africa, recently made by Dr. 

 Livingstone. In the middle of that hitherto unknown region, in 

 South latitude 15° 16', East longitude, about 23*^, on a river run- 

 ning from northwest to southeast at four or five miles an hour, in 

 places 100 miles long and one mile wide, at Katonga, Kaliel, &c., 

 he found extensive districts, rich in vegetation, people and ani- 

 mals occupying villages, which were dotted over it, with gardens 

 cultivated, having several sorts of millet, one with large white 

 grain, sugar cane, Indian corn, sweet potatoes, beans, yams, arum 

 (of which sago is made,) ground nuts, manioc, &c. The people 

 have thousands of 'cattle, and more milk and butter than they can 

 consume. [Can we say as much of any part of America or Eu- 

 rope? Meigs, j 



