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Sweeting,' or other sweet apples described in Mr. DoM'ning's work 

 on trees. The apple is a little inferior in size to the largest iS'ewtown 

 Pippin, It keeps about as Avell, perhaps better. Have had them at 

 grafting time ; is a very great bearer. The original tree was ]:)ronght 

 to this country by Governor Dongan and planted at Canton, in the 

 manor of Van Cortlandt. The tree from which the grafts were cut 

 stands on the place of Philip G. Van AVyck, Esq., at Sing Sing, and 

 is a grafting from a graft from the original tree. This apple is as 

 crisp as the Newtown Pippin or the Little Ladies' apple. I commend 

 the variety as worthy of culture by all lovers of line apples." 



Mr. Carpenter, Mr. Fuller, and others, will graft them and report 

 to the club when the cions come in bearing. 



"Williamson's Whiffle-tree. 



This wliiffle-tree has a curved bar, has a clevis at the center, which 

 is fitted with a pulley and chain working through it. The outer 

 traces are hitched to the ends of the curved bar ; the inner traces to 

 this chain, which plays on the pulley. It distributes the strain, makes 

 the draft even, and stops chafing. 



Mr. A. S. Fuller. — I have tried his implement on my farm, and 

 can recommend it. 



CiiUEN Dash. 



Mr. Howard Tilden exhibited a churn dash at the last meeting, and 

 claimed that it was a new and valuable invention. In order to show 

 that the invention is not a new device, Dr. A. Preterre, No. 159 Bow- 

 ery, the inventor of the eccaleo beon, brought in a small churn exactly 

 like the one exhibited as new. The doctor came to this country in 

 1S58, and brought this little churn with him, which bears the French 

 stamp. He stated that the emperor was* so well pleased, with this 

 churn that he ordered a supply of butter made every morning for his 

 table in a churn of this style. 



The effect of such an array of incontrovertible evidence is in favor of 

 the priority of the French invention. 



Cut ok Uncut Hay. 

 Messrs. Herenden & Jones, GeneA'"a, N. T., say that they had 

 experimented with cut or uncut hay for horses, and it pays to cut 

 hay ; then to wet and mix the other food with it. This not only 

 saves the horse the trouble of chewing, but concentrated food is mixed 

 through the hay, and the stomach better digests it, and the animal 

 gets all the substance out of it. 



Adjourned. 



