PEOCEEDINGS OF THE FARMERS' CLUB. 



[ORGANIZED JUME 22. 1843.] 



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

 control of the committee of agriculture. 



Tlie meetings are held on the first and 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 Broadway. 



The meetings are free to the members of the Institute, and all other per- 

 sons connected with the pursuit of agriculture, or who may desire through 

 this medium to diffuse information on the subject of cultivation. 



The Club will be happy to receive written communications at its meet- 

 ings, on the subject of agriculture, horticulture, the raising and improve- 

 ment of stock, and chemistry applied to agriculture. 



May 6, 1856. 



Present — Messrs. "Watkins, Lowe, Atwood of Jersey, Stacej, 

 John M, Bixby, Solon Robinson, Prof. Nash of Massachusetts, 

 Brewster of Jersey, Edwards of London, England, President Pellj 

 36 in all. 



R. S. Livingston, Esq , in the chair. Henry Meigs, sec'y. 



Mr. Secretary Meigs read the following papers translated by 

 him from the Parisian works imported by the last steamer : 



[Bulletin Mensuel De La Societie Imperiale, Zoologique D'Acclimation, Paris, 

 Napoleon 3d, Protecteurj No. 3, March 1856.] 



THE ANGORA GOAT. 



Hardy reports their condition since their introduction into Al- 

 geria : 



I went to Cheragas to examine the flock of Angora goats con- 

 fided to the care of Mr. Frutie, one of our oldest and ablest colo- 

 nists. We found twelve females and one buck. The buck and 

 ten of the she goats are of the perfectly pure race — their long 

 silky fleeces undulating, entirely white, shone brilliantly in the 

 sun shine. Two of them had their fleeces as white as the rest 

 but much shorter and less silky. They seem to have come from 

 a mixture of breeds. 



The flock is in very satisfactory condition — they are lively, 

 alert and in very flourishing health — they are ralher too plump 

 (d'embonpoint,) for the race of goat. However it is easy to see 

 that in exterior, they, to a certain degree, resemble sheep. They 

 graze all day — sometimes in the plains and sometimes among 

 brush-wood — in company with a certain number of she goats from 

 this country, and some from Malta. The bucks being carefully 

 kept away from the flock. At night each Angora goat sleeps in 



