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difficulty lies in not knowing the proper quantity of each material 

 used. To four bushels of sand and gravel add one bushel of good 

 stone lime, increase the amount of lime as it air-slackens, and mix 

 enough of the compound to go once around the building. We com- 

 pleted a round once in forty-eight hours ; some do it in twenty-four. 

 We made our bed in the evening, and found the lime ready for mix- 

 ing by morning. We put the mortar in molds, with as many small 

 stones as we could beat in, thereby lessening the cost and strengthen- 

 ing the wall. Much depends upon the nearness of sand, gravel and 

 stone. 1^0 danger need be feared from rain if the walls are covered 

 with boards. ' 



HoKSE Flesh fok Food. 



Mr. J. B. Lyman. — Mr. Chairman : We have with us to-day a gen- 

 tleman who has earned for himself a rare and admirable distinction 

 for his exertion in a much neglected department of justice and 

 charity. Born in affluence, associated by family and education with 

 the class who usually walk not on the dusty and thorny track of the 

 reformer, but " in the primrose path of dalliance," he spent some 

 twenty years of his life in the capitals of the old world. Returning 

 to America, not stained by their vices, nor chilled by their selfishness, 

 he saw that in our eager and strenuous activity, in the all-conquering 

 push of our magnificent enterprise, we have been as a nation indif- 

 ferent to the rights -of the brute creation, and often unchristian, 

 cruel, and ruthless in our treatment of these dumb servitors of the 

 race. He organized a society for tlie prevention of cruelty to 

 animals, of which he is to-day the president. That society feel, Mr. 

 Chairman, and its president especially is penetrated with the convic- 

 tion that much remains to be achieved. Abuses are to be corrected, 

 some bad laws to be abolished, good ones to be enacted, and, above 

 all, the public to be educated to a purer, a higher, and a juster 

 humanity. I am, therefore, glad and proud of the opportunity I 

 now have of introducing to the Farmers' Club, Mr. Henry Bergh. 



Mr. Bergh. — Gentlemen of the Farmers' Club : I am not here to 

 instruct you in the noble science of agriculture. Among the Romans, 

 agriculture was held in great esteem. Cato, in the second, and Yarro, 

 in the first century before the Christian era, Yirgil, at the time of 

 tlie birth of our Saviour, Pliny, Columella, and Palladius, have all 

 extolled, its excellences. Several of the noble families of Rome 

 derived their patronymics from some vegetable which they were 



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