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escape the wheat midge. By this late sowing my wheat has 

 escaped this pest, while that of my neighbors, sown ten daj's to 

 a fortnight earlier, has suffered severely. My wheat the past 

 season yielded 755 bushels from 35 acres of breadth. 



Mr. Adrian Bergen had been annoyed by the wheat weevil , and 

 experience had learned him that when a barn has got weevils in 

 it he knew no other way to get rid of them than not to i^ut any more 

 wheat there for a period long enough to starve them out. We 

 know very well that these insects attack our wheat in our grana- 

 ries where we used to suppose the grain was safe. 



The subject of wheat was ordered to be continued at the next 

 meeting, together with summer soiling of stock. 



The Club then adjourned to Tuesday, June 3, at noon. 



H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



June 3, 1856. 



Present — Messrs. Pell, Field, of Brooklyn, Darling, Dr. Water- 

 bury, Dr. Wellington, Judge Seoville, Dr. Smith, Solon Robinson, 

 Anderson, Antonides, Bergen, of Gowanus, Lowe, Judd, Alanson 

 Nash, Pardee. 



President Pell in the chair, Henry Meigs, Secretary. 



The Secretary read the following translations -made by him : 



[The Moniteur of Societies and Cultivators, Paris, April 1, 1856. Six francs a 

 year, pamphlet 45 pages.] 



This sums up the transactions of a great number of agricultu- 

 ral societies and meetings relative to agriculture, and everything 

 relative to it. It is sent to the Farmer's Club of the Institute. 



Official JYotice relalive to the next great Universal Exhibition of 

 Animals^ Vegetables, and everything belonging to agriculture. 



All animals will be fed free of charge to the exhibitors during 

 the exhibition. 



Government pays the expenses of transmission to Paris of all 

 animals, implements, and premium agricultuj-al products, from 

 all societies. 



And also of all animals which have not taken premiums, if the 

 judges say that they should appear in the exhibition. Tlie Bel- 

 gian government orders transportation on her railways, gratuitous 

 for all animals for the exhibition, and fifty per cent less fur all 

 products and implements. 



Canal of Suez. — Referred to the committee on economy, sta- 

 tistics, and agricultural legislation. 



