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means of amending agricultural faults, of laziness or ignorance, and 

 pointing the way to future improvements and welfare. 



Mr. Gore felt convinced that guano and its imitative artificial 

 manures had very great advantages over ordinary barn yard ma- 

 nure, both on account of the total absence of weeds and vermin, 

 and also the greatly reduced trouble of transportation and appli- 

 cation to the land. 



The Club adopted as subjects for the next meeting " bread and 

 butter for the city" and "steamploughs." 



Heavy rain almost all day. 



The Club adjourned to the regular day— first Tuesday of Sep- 

 tember, 1856. 



H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



September 2, 1856. 



Present — Hon. Robert Swift Livingston, Solon Robinson, Dr. 

 Waterbury, John Couzens, of Dobb's Ferry, Adrian Rergen, of 

 Gowanus, Martin E. Thompson, Judge Scoville, Dr. Smith, T. W. 

 Field, of Brooklyn, a Lady, Mr. Darling, Lieut. Washington A. 

 Bartlett, of the United States Navy, and others — thirty-seven 

 in all. 



Hon. R. S. Livingston, in the chair. H. Meigs, Secretary. 



The Secretary read the following extracts made from the last 

 works received by the Institute from London, Paris, etc., (viz :) 



[Newton's London Journal, August, 1858.] 



Steam, Plows and other Implements for Tillage. By David Fiskin 



and Robert Hay Fiskin, of Stockton on Tees. 



Fixed power — drawing the implements across the land. 



' [London Farmer's Magazine, August, 1856.] 



Boydell's Traction Engine, of which we extracted some notices 

 for the Club of May or June. 



The government experiments with it are of very great interest. 



" An important series of experiments were commenced on Tues- 

 day last by the select committee of the board of ordinance, with 

 the above engine, to test its traction force as a substitute for artil- 

 lery horses; and the results, so for as gone, greatly exceed our 

 expectations — sanguine as they have ever been. The experiments 

 on the 24th instant, were two. 



