380 Teaxsactioxs of the American Institute. 



pounds of long fodder for ])roducing muscle or fat. I know that if I 

 were to throw away mj feed cutters my plowman would come to me 

 within three days and say : " Mr. Quinn, I cannot keep my horse in 

 good condition on long fodder." "Why is this club forever meddling 

 with first principles, and laboring to upset the axioms of our profes- 

 sion ? We will become the laughing stock of the civilized world, if 

 we continue to advance theory in the face of solid facts. Solon 

 Robinson calls for a man that believes in cut feed. Mr, Chairman 

 . I am the man. An experience of eighteen years has convinced *me 

 that my animals do better on cut food than on any other. This is, or 

 would be, the testimon}^ of thousands who devote their working hours 

 to the care of stock. If the kind of reasoning that we have heard 

 here to-day continues, our professors will be saying, by and by, that ' 

 grist-mills are useless and should be burned, 



YlXEYAKDS AND CeAXBERRT GaRDEXS IX SoUTH JeKSEY, 



The committee of this cliil) appointed by the chair to visit the cran- 

 berry plantations of Ocean county, New Jersey, and a remarkable 

 vine3'ard -on Barnegat bay, submit the following report of what we 

 saw and learned : We went to Toms' river, near the upper extremity 

 of Barnegat bay, and taking carriages, rode for about ten miles nearly 

 south through a great sandy plain. The country bore marks of fre- 

 quent and extensive fires. We passed through 20,000 acres belong- 

 ing to one man, and 1-J:,000 acres adjacent belonging to another man. 

 The growth upon these extensive tracts is almost wholly small pines, 

 with bushes or shrubs of oak. We passed two or three considerable 

 streams, on the margin of which were cedar swamps. The surface 

 does not appear to be more than twenty or thirty feet above tide- 

 water. At the distance of two miles from a village called Forked 

 Eiver, which is seven miles north of Barnegat, we passed across a 

 tract of 1,000 acres belonging to D. H. Tichenor, of Newark, a small 

 part of which, seventy acres in extent, has been cleared and brought 

 into cultivation. It is owned and tilled by E. R. Spanlding, who 

 purchased the tract last spring from Mr. Tichenor. The soil of 

 this farm does not appear to be essentially different from that of the 

 large uncultivated tracts through which we had been journeying. 

 The surface undulates slightly, the higher parts being of a sandy 

 loam, and the lower portions of a yellowish gravelly nature. On the 

 sandiest part of the tract there has been established a vineyard of 

 something over four acres in extent, two and a quarter acres being in 



