PnOCEEDINGS OP THE FARMERS' ClUB. 659 



pulling the devil by the tail, as a great many people do here in New 

 York city, secure for themselves a home and a competency. If I 

 put an advertisement in The World, "Wanted, directly, a certain 

 number of men," with the guarantee that they should get an honest 

 living, I could get 10,000 in this city within twenty-four hours. 

 Where there are men without money, but with good health, with 

 common intelligence, with a willingness to work, and with the 

 knowledge, perhaps, of some trade, what shall they do, where shall 

 they go ; shall they remain here and live on those that are here, or 

 can this cliib tell them where they can go and have a home for them- 

 selves and families. 



Seeds fkom CiimA and Japan. 



The president then drew attention to a box of seeds presented to 

 the club b_y Dr. Wm. W. Sanger, in behalf of his brother, from 

 China and Japan. It w^as the expressed desire of Mr. Sanger that 

 the seeds be distributed amongst such members of the club as could 

 afford to watch them attentively, and, if required, in cases of success- 

 ful cultivation, return slips and seed to him. The specimens included 

 the varnish tree, m^ango, yongtoo, and many other choice varieties of 

 the native plants and flowers of the far east. 



Specimens of seedling potatoes of a new variety (one or two of. 

 them very large), called respectfully the General Grant, were received 

 from C. P. Butts, Mehorpany, Wyoming count}^, Pa., wdiich were 

 distributed to a number of the members present. 



Adjournedi 



April 13, 1869. 



Mr. Nathan C. Ely in the chair; Mr. John W. Chambers, Secretary. 



Pkopek Management of a Dry Bog. 



John Cowen, of White Plains, Westchester county, has three acres 

 of what he calls dry bog, a low lying piece of land, seldom covered 

 with water, but having a black soil with many tufts of wild grass 

 and stunted bushes. He asks the club how to treat such a surface, 

 and what small fruits will flourish best in it. 



Mr. W. S. Carpenter. — I suggest that he drain it, and plow down 

 the tufts or hummocks, then take out the sourness by some alkali, I 

 recommend unleached ashes mixed with fine crushed lime. Such 

 land will then be very valuable for any purpose ; and if he would put 



