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the time that white clover was most in blossom. As for honey dew I have 

 never seen it in this section. In some seasons we obtain a good yield 

 from basswood, but none tliis year. The quantity of buckwlieat honey 

 was very light — about two lbs. to five of clover; tiierofore I consider white 

 clover the main source of supply, and in this section there is plenty of it. 

 I wish to ask the Club, or any of the outside members, if there is any feasible 

 mode of stifling the worms or moth eggs in boxes, after being removed from 

 the hive, without the use of sulphur, which is apt to give the combs a green 

 color." Would the fumes of charcoal answer ? 



Mr. Bartiet, who is a practical chemist, replies no; nothing of the kind 

 ■will destroy the vitality of eggs. 



Evans' Rotary Cultivator. 



Solon Robinson. — I am glad to announce to the Club that "Evans' Ro- 

 tary Cultivator" has been so much improved by Mr. Hepburn, its present 

 proprietor, that it is almost a new maohine, and much more promising of 

 success in practical use than it was when exhibited two years ago at Roches- 

 ter, at which time it was highly commended by a committee at the State 

 Fair. I am informed that a company has been formed for the purpose of • 

 introducing it to the public. The machine is now ready for exhibition, and 

 it is intended to have a public trial of it at Flatbush, L. I., on Thursday 

 next, and the proprietors would be glad to have a committee of this Club 

 present." ^ 



On motion of Mr. Robinson a committee of five were appointed to examine 

 the working of the machine: Messrs. Solon Robinson, John G. Bergen, Wm. 

 S. Carpenter, }'. T. Quinn, Isaac M. Ward were appointed said committee. 



Consumption of Meat in Cities — London and New York 



Compared. 



Mr. Solon Robinspn. — I find the following statistics in The Mark Lane 

 Express of the consumption of meat in London, which I think worthy of 

 transferring to the reports of this Club, to compare them with those of 

 New York. The figures are from a paper read by R. Herbert before the 

 British Association for the Advancement of Science. The writer appears 

 to mourn the inability of England to furnish meat for its own people. He 

 says: 



" If we closely examine the returns of the great metropolitan market, 

 which has to furnish a supply for nearly 3,000,000 people, we shall find a 

 state of things which would appear to shake confidence as regards our 

 powers of production. In 1853 and 1863 the total supplies of stock dis- 

 posed of in the above market were: 



185.3. 1863. 



Beef cattle 252,(524 288,177 



Sheep and lambs 1,325,474 1,389,142 



Calves ; 20,395 23,291 



Pigs 34,677 53,985 



From the above figures, we must deduct the numbers of foreign stock 

 offered, in order to see how far production has increased in the United 

 Kingdom. These numbers were: 



