Proceedings of the Farmers' Club. 583 



Makketd^g of Perishable Feuits. 



Mr. J. C. Derby, Aikin, South Carolina, read a paper on the best 

 mode of taking delicate and tropical fruits to market. He suggests 

 the use of a large refrigerator in which the temperature may, by the 

 use of ice, be kept at forty degrees. 



Mr. W. S. Carpenter. — This would not be low enough. To last 

 any time the temperature around fruits should be thirty-two degrees. 

 I have kept strawberries two months, and pears six, by preserving 

 around them this low temperature. 



Cahoon's Seed Sower. 



Mr. Goodell. — This contrivance was brought upon the stand and 

 its operation illustrated. It throws the grain a rod each way from 

 the sower, and scatters it even. It sows all thfe grains, and costs ten 

 dollars. Mr. Carpenter said he had used one ten years, and likes it. 



Poultry Keeping. 



Mr. Daniel E. Gavit, Secretary of the jSTew York State Poultry 

 Society, called the attention of the club to the exhibition, to take 

 place on the 22d of March, at the Emj)ire Rink, of domestic and 

 fancy fowls. The chair spoke of the importance of the subject 

 and the propriety of ascertaining from those who make poultry a 

 business their mode of selecting, pairing, breeding, and. rearing 

 chickens. He appointed Messrs, Joseph B. Lyman, Andrew S. 

 Fuller and William S. Carpenter, a committee to visit the exhibition, 

 and report to the club whatever of general value may be learned 

 there. 



Mr, D. B. Bruen, ISTeWark, X. J. — I am glad of this movement. 

 Farmers can make as much profit in poultry as they can on beef or 

 potatoes, and with much less hard work, I have kept hens for a 

 great many years, and have made it pay as well as any branch of 

 farming. I have had the Spanish and, afterward, the Leghorn breeds. 

 I sought eggs mainly, M}' boxes are just a foot square, so two hens 

 never quarrel for one nest. With fifty-eight hens and two roosters I 

 produced in one season 667 dozen eggs, I fed with oats, cracked 

 corn and cooked scraps, I am particular to keep them clean, giving 

 them dry sand, ashes, and clean straw. They are very fond of 

 oyster -shells, burnt and pounded ; and I think they make thicker 

 and stronger shells when they have lime in abundance. In the 

 season referred to, those fifty-eight hens cleared me • eighty-three 



