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The committee consisted of thirteen originally. 



Messrs. John A. Bunting, Adrian Eergen of Gowanus, Dr. Smith 

 of the Times, Dr. Wellington, George Andrews, John V. Brown, 

 John L. Tucker, S. Blackwell and lady, A. 0. Moore, Dr. B. F. 

 Hatch, Henry Steele, C. F. Tuttle, A. S. Walcott, Mr. Raynolds 

 and Henry Meigs. 



The committee was received by the Professor and his amiable 

 lady and children, with that grace which grows from cultivated 

 cultivators — the rich farm and the science with the arts. The 

 Professor gave us a volunteer upon his musical glasses, in a style 

 of touch which is seldom experienced — tones inimitable by other 

 means. 



The committee then surveyed the farm, the factory of fertilizers 

 in full action by steam power, the operation of the Professor's 

 patent digger, or rather we say Forker. His noble oxen drew it 

 through the soil, pulverising it literally. The driver touched the 

 cattle rather too much with his whip, and Mr. George Andrews 

 of the committee had leave to command them. He spoke gently 

 to them, touched them lightly with the end of the whip stock 

 and not with the lash, and they acknowledged his skill by a steady 

 even draught, pleasing to the committee. When Mr. Andrews 

 was young he learned this art from those who like his father had 

 long made of their noble red cattle the most docile of creatures. 



Capt. Francisco Bordon being invited to speak of the agricul- 

 ture of Mexico, where he has been extensively a traveller and 

 observer for many years, an ofiicer of the army of Mexico, of 

 English birth. One arm lost in battle with Camanche Indians — 

 men of very extraordinary bodily strength and great courage. 



The descriptions given by the Captain of the wonderful richness 

 in yet undescribed magnificent flowers in some mountainous 

 regions were well receiv^ed by the Club. 



Mr. Meigs remarked that Mexico had been long considered 

 capable of excellence in agriculture almost without a parallel. 

 The general surface being elevated about six thousand feet above 

 the ocean on either side of it, its climates had both temperatures, 

 the temperate on the summits and tropical at the base. Like the 

 mountain Potosi, all the plants of both zones flourished within a 



