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The day will come when the guano at these islands will be 

 drudged up with boats like mud from our rivers and harbors. 



ALANSON NASH, 

 36 Beekman street, N. Y. 

 Subject for next meeting — " Canada millet and summer feeding 

 of cattle." 



Club adjourned, H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



Jw/t/ 1,1856. 



Present — Messrs- Solon Robinson, J. Payne Lowe, Dr. Smith, 

 Elijah T. Kimball, of Flatlands, L. I., and others- 



Dr- Waterbury in the chair, Henry Meigs, Secretary. 



Mr. J. Payne Lowe presented the following paper, which was 

 read by him to the club : 



" Yours of the 30th of July was received in due time, and 

 would have been answered before this had I not delayed writing 

 in order to forward you at the same time a sample of the Lawler 

 wheat, according to your request. I have not been able yet to 

 procure any of this wheat, l)Ut have ascertained that a gentleman 

 of my acquaintance, living about 30 miles from me, saved some 

 last fall, and have written to him to supply me with a small parcel 

 by mail. It will be forwarded on to you as soon as received. 

 My neighbor, Mr, Old, introduced this variety of wheat in our 

 section in 1818, having procured it of Mr. Lawler of Virginia. 

 It already had attained great celebrity, both on account of the 

 beautiful character of the grain and its exemption from the attack 

 of the Hessian fly. It is a beardless white wheat, heavy, and 

 suited to the manufacture of the best and whitest flour. The 

 stalk is strong and elastic. The yield makes it compare with the 

 best of other varieties when it is not destroyed by rust. In some 

 instances in our neighborhood, when it was first introduced, it 

 yielded as much as from 80 to 100 bushels to one sowed. Its 

 comparative exemption from fly was illustrated in one instance 

 cited to me,in which another popular variety was cultivated along 

 side of this on the same field; the first was almost entirely 

 destroyed, while the latter w^as free from injury to the line oi 

 contact. The variety retained its character for many years, but 

 it is late in coming to maturity, and, like all other late varieties, 

 is liable to the greatest cause of fatality to the wheat crop witli 

 us — the rust. Occurring as this disease does, about the time < 1 

 harvest, a few days sooner or later in the ripening of the croj , 

 will decide between an abundant yield or an entire failure. On 

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