3L4 TrAXS ACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 



gallons per minute. After a year's experience of its nse, I consider 

 tlie pump our greatest labor-saver, not excepting the sewing macliine, 

 tlie Avashing macliine, or even the wringer. 



Blind Opener. 



A device for opening and closing blinds, while the sash is closed, 

 by Mr. S. Jewett, Haverhill, Mass., was exhibited. A knob in the 

 window casing, which might also serve as a curtain knob, is attached 

 to a lever, which opens and shuts the blind at will, while the sasli is 

 closed. The meml)ers generally thought it an important invention. 

 Something similar was sent out a few years ago from Pittsburgh, but 

 it did not go into use, probably on account of defects. 



Red and white potatoes on one stalk were shown by Mr. jSTyce, 

 which the chair called the Rose and the Goodrich. 



To REMoyE Mildew — Farm Life. 



Mrs. M. E. Colville, Granville, Ohio. — I wish to benefit some dis- 

 couraged housekeeper this hot weather. For, be she ever so thorough 

 and vigilant, there is a chance of finding some morning that all the 

 fine clothes of the last washing are mildewed, and then, oh dear ! you 

 can't imagine what a heart-sick feeling it gives one when they do not 

 know what will take it out. Sour milk M'ill not, if you soak the 

 clothes a year, for acid rots the cloth. My remedy is to wet the cloth 

 in soft water, and then rub on plenty of soft soap and salt, then hang 

 out on the line in the sun and air for a few days. This will remove all 

 mildew, no matter how fine or coarse the cloth may be, or if it is linen 

 or cotton. I think the reports of the Farmers' Club of more real value 

 to farmers and farmers' wives throughout the country than all the 

 agricultural papers put together. It has too long been thought that 

 farming required no brains. The time is fast approaching when it 

 will be thouglit far otherwise. I would not have all become farmers, 

 but they who have the taste or the ability in that direction should be 

 by all means. Farming is hard work unless we bring ta it cheerful 

 hearts and willing hands ; but is it harder than the close cojifinement 

 of the workshops, of the counting rooms, or to stand behind counters, 

 or in the thousand and one places where men and women earn their 



daily bread in cities and villages ? 



Adjourned. 



