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from the Imphee possesses no unpleasant flavor. We tasted it, 

 and found it very pleasant in flavor, reminding one of maple 

 sugar. Another sample had been purged j it presented the 

 appearance of fine clayed Havana. i he crystals are firm and 

 sharp, and the taste is not different from good Havanas, which 

 are now selling in the JNew-York market at eleven and twelve 

 cents, by the quantity. 



If Mr. Wray is not amiss in his calculations as to the yield per 

 acre, or if we can obtain but one thousand pounds, what an 

 immense gift to American agriculture is he about to make ? Our 

 rapidly waning crop of sugar is at once exchanged for the greatest 

 abundance, and a vast source of wealth is opened for our farmers. 

 He has already expended some twenty thousand dollars in his 

 experiments and attempts to introduce it into Europe, and it is 

 to be lioped that his visit to our country may prove remunerative 

 in proportion to the importance of his discovery to ourselves. 



Inquiry was made by a gentleman present in regard to some 

 suitable crushing apparatus. Mr. Hedges, the inventor of the 

 Little Giant corn and cob mill, said he had invented a mill for 

 this purpose, which he had exhibited at the recent fair at Wash- 

 ington, and received a silver medal. He had planted some five 

 hundred hills of seed in a hot-house in Philadelphia, and v/ould 

 be able to crush the canes and make sugar as early as June 1st, 

 which would be in ample time for the next fall's crop. His mill, 

 of which he showed a cut, consists of three vertical iron rollers, 

 of great strength, one of which is firmly anchored in a beam set 

 in the ground; the atlier two are attached to the platform, so as 

 to revolve simultaneously with the progress of the horses. Tlie 

 canes are fed to the rollers from a feeding table, the expressed 

 juice runs down through a shoot, and the bagasse drops out at 

 the opposite side. 



Monsieur Auguste d'Ouville, of France, called the attention of 

 the Club to a new corn-planter of his own invention, and a com- 

 mittee, consisting of Messrs Field, Pardee and Waterbury were 

 appointed. 



Horace Greeley spoke of Mr. Hedges's new steam boiler, for 

 cooking food for stock, etc., and moved the appointment of a 

 committee to go to No. 197 Water street to examine it. The 

 chair appointed Mr. Greeley and Messrs Pardee and Olcott on 

 this committee. 



The subject of the day "Manures," was next in order. Prof. 

 Mapes addressed the Club upon the varied excellence of manures 

 in a more or less progressed condition, claiming that if phosphate 



