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spoiled can be made clean b}' being filled two or three times with 

 clean water, to which ashes maj be added ; then invert the barrel, 

 and place under it a good smoke of cobs. 



Adjourned. 



November 17, 1868. 



Mr. Nathan G. Ely in the chair; Mr. John W. Chambees, Secretary. 



Tennessee Lands. 



Mr, Frederick Daiirs, Hammonton, K. J,, among other things, 

 somewhat personal, wrote that he went from Jersey to Tennessee, 

 and that he has returned entirely satisfied that a poor man cannot 

 live there, and a rich man would not. He adds he has been 

 cruelly deceived, and wants to prevent others from being wronged as 

 he has been, 



Mr, Solon Eobinson. — Tennessee is a very large State, and it is 

 very indefinite to speak of the State in this general way. ^NTow I 

 know that some parts of the State are superb, and can hardly be 

 excelled for fiirming. Other parts are of course poorer, as is the case 

 in all States. 



Mr. "W. S, Carpenter, — I am convinced that the State is well 

 adapted to fruit of all kinds. In places peaches have been so abun- 

 dant as to rot on the ground. 



Mr. J. B. Lyman. — Such a letter ought not to pass without an 

 expression. I lived there myself five years. One-half of it is equal 

 to the best part of the State of Xew York, and the climate is superb. 

 Improved land, equal to the best in western New York, can be had 

 from fifteen dollars to twenty dollars an acre. 



Mr. IST. C. Meeker. — This is rather too fast to compare Tennessee 

 with New York, for most farms, unless on the bottoms, are nearly 

 worn out and a farm of fifty or 100 acres will not give a family much 

 living, while in western New York it will give abundance. More 

 than this, grass does not grow naturally, and if it did, the feed 

 would be short during the long hot summers. 



Mr. Wilcox, of Bufialo. — The main difliculty with the old farms of 

 Tennessee, having a limestone basis, is that with a tender, loamy soil, 

 they are badly washed by rains. In buying a farm one will get a fair 

 proportion of this washed land, which is whollj' unproductive. One 

 should be careful in selectiuir a farm. 



