Proceebixgs of the Farmers' Club, 577 



passed tlirongli your busy and trustworthy hands in a single year. It 

 is but a trifle in itself. But our motive will not fail to add value to 

 it in your estimation. The wreath of oak branches, acorns, and 

 leaves, embossed on the covers of this port-folio will serve to remind 

 you, sir, of the rural associations connected with your important 

 labors in behalf of those who have the blessed privilege of beholding 

 with the eyes of prosperity, the grand originals which furnished the 

 artists ideal, as they send their roots down deeper and deeper into the 

 welcoming bosom of mother earth, while their limbs spread them- 

 selves to welcome the breeze and the sunshine of heaven. Those 

 originals furnish shade and shelter to the toil-worn farmers of the 

 land, to whose number you have so greatly aided this, their own club, 

 to make annual additions through the agriculture, encouraging 

 transactions, the record of which it is your duty and pleasure to pre- 

 serve for publication. 



I will, also, hand you this neatly framed calendar, got up by the 

 same firm from which the port-folio was procured. May the diurnal 

 reckonings upon the face of this calendar find you as healthful and as 

 happy as you have been in your past life, at least, that portion 

 thereof, I venture to say, which you have so usefully spent as secre- 

 tarj' of our association, whose importance to the M'hole country is 

 only to be measured by the indispensability of the particular class it 

 seeks to benefit to society at large. Of course, I am understood as 

 alluding to the great farming class, for whose increased enlighten- 

 ment the American Institute, through this club, so gladly and hope- 

 fully sends forth the seeds of truth along with the thousands of 

 packages of more material seeds yearly distributed so unsparingly,, 

 with your assistance as our disseminating agent. 



The secretary in accepting the beautiful tribute which had been, 

 presented in the above flattering terms by Dr. Snodgrass, said that it 

 was extremely gratifying to him to receive such a mark of respect 

 from the members of the Farmers' Club, occupying, as he did, the 

 position that had been so ably filled by his predecessor. Judge Meigs,, 

 he felt at times his inability to perform the important duties apper- 

 taining to the office. He thanked the donors for the present they had 

 made, and should treasure it as long as he lived. 



Feeding Corn — Cob Meal. 



This subject was introduced by J. J. Tocheedy, Monroe, Wis., who- 

 writes : I have heard it stated by some experienced farmers that the? 

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