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this market is destroyed by being heated, and is not fit for food. As to 

 its making g'ood soldiers, history gives credit to France for producing the 

 best soldiers, and their food is not Indian corn. In North Carolina the 

 people live upon hog and hominy, but that does not make better soldiers 

 than New England produces. There is one greater objection to the use 

 of corn as food in cities than the expense of fire in cooking, and that is the 

 unsound condition of the corn, -which is very liable to heat and grow 

 musty when stored in bulk. It is so much so that steam machinery has 

 been invented to manipulate and restore musty corn. The contrivance is 

 only partially successful. The only safe way to transport corn is in the 

 ear, and if we had an inland ship-canal that could be done, and he thought 

 we ought to advocate such a canal. 



Solon Robinson said that the reason the Irish disliked corn bread was, 

 because the corn or meal sent from this country was spoiled on the voyage. 

 He thought there should be a law to compel owners of all corn, that is to 

 be transported in bulk, to first kiln-dry it, since it often spoils so as to be 

 very unhealthy for man or beast. He once lost a horse by feeding him 

 upon corn that became musty on the voyage down the Mississippi to 

 Vicksburg, and he has no doubt that musty corn is often the cause of sick- 

 ness, when little suspected; but he believes that there is no healthier diet 

 than corn, when used perfectly sound, if sufficiently cooked. He also 

 commended very highly the use of hominy, and coarse corn meal, and the 

 use of a hand-mill, so as to have it fresh ground upon every farm. 



Mr. Wm. S. Carpenter. — My opinion has not been changed by the re- 

 marks made to-day. I consider corn makes an excellent food for the 

 human family. 



Lima Beans and Lima Squash. 



A quantity of Lima beans and Lima squash seed imported by Mr. John 

 Groshon from Lima, presented by Mr. Isaac Buchanan, was distributed 

 among the members present. 



Adjourned. 



John W. Chambers, Secretary. 



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Jane, 16, 18G3. 



Mr. Martin E. Thompson in. the chair. 



The Hat Tedder. 



David Lyman, of Middlefield, Conn., highly commends a hay tedder, 

 manufactured by Stephen Heald, Barre, Mass., at $75 each. These ma- 

 chines are mounted upon a pair of wheels, with shafts like a cart, and as 

 the horse moves forward, the hay is thrown up by forks attached to cranks. 

 Mr. Lyman says: 



"Imagine a cloud of hay 8 or 9 feet wide, extending from the ground to 

 from 6 to 8 feet high, behind this machine, and you have a good idea of 

 the mode of operation. A boy 12 or 14 years old can operate it." 



Prof. Nash. — I have no doubt about the operation of the machine, that 

 it will do all that the gentleman says, and that it is a well made machine, 

 for Yankees are in the way of making such things well, and I have no 

 doubt about its being a very useful farm implement, in such a climate as 



