426 Tbaxsactioxs of the Amebic an Institute. 



and "vrise to pause a moment in our ineffectual discussions about apple 

 trees and grub worms to take our bearings and calculate the value 

 and drift of our labors. If careful experiment will do mucli to settle 

 mooted questions in tillage, and I know it will, shall we not experi- 

 ment. If scientific scrutiny will do anything to advance sound farm- 

 ing, I for one am ever ready to add my industry, such as it may be. 

 The eulogies of Professor Mapes, and I am sure they are all just, 

 show one valuable truth, that the one man who above all others made 

 the deepest mark on the agriculture of his time, was the most 

 thouo-htful and learned agricultural chemist that ever took part in 

 the deliberations of this club. 



Mr. Adrian Bergen alluded to the services of the late Judge Henry 

 Meigs, for many years the secretary of this club. 



Mr. Wm. S, Carpenter. — It was through the instrumentality of Mr. 

 Thaddeus B. Wakeman that tliis club was organized, but the great 

 progress is due to our venerable friend Mr. Solon Eobinson, by 

 attracting towards it the eyes of so large a country audience. 



Mr. Wm. Lawton then gave a number of interesting reminiscences 

 of the club in its early day, and spoke with much feeling of old 

 associates. 



Mr. Geo. Geddes said he was struck with the important omission 

 in Mr. Lyman's remarks ; and this was the work which tlie reporters 

 were doing. Often they gave more force to a man's utterance tlian 

 he himself gave. 



Another present was made by the chairman to Dr. Trimble, which 

 was a handsome picture, followed by a pleasant speech from the 

 recipient. 



Xew Potatoes. 



Mr. K. T. Jackson, Spring Mills, Allegany county, X. Y., sends a 

 box of seedling potatoes, the seed of which came from Chili, and as 

 they did well with him, he wishes others to try them. This will be 

 done, and a report made. 



Mr. E. M'Connell, Xew Castle, IS". Y., sends a photograph of. a 

 seedling from the Buckeye, two weeks earlier than the Early Pose, 

 but he has none for sale. 



An agricultural picture, by Miss Cornelia Beach, Montezuma, N. 

 Y., has been received, and will be appropriated as designed. 



