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against the further promulgation and practice of this barbarous, useless 

 and unscientific practice, upon so valuable and beautiful a gift of the 

 Creator to man as that of the horse, and second only in utility to the cow. 



Dr. Trimble. — I fully agree with this gentleman. 



Solon Robinson. — And I do not. He is talking of a disease that has no 

 more to do with the lampas than bleeding at the nose has. Lampas is not 

 merely an inflammation of the gums. It is a constitutional disease that 

 sometimes attacks aged horses, and I do not believe that there is any 

 remedy that is so effectual and causes so little pain as burning with a hot 

 iron. I do not ask the Club to recommend this practice — I do it on my own 

 responsibility. There are cases of sores upon the human system that 

 won't heal, which if cauterized with a hot iron will at once commence the 

 healing process. 



Mr. William Matthews, Greenfield, L. I., exhibited some fine specimens. 

 of cherries, and desires to be informed if they were the Black Eagle. The 

 cherries were tested and a difference of opinion was expressed, some 

 called them the Black Tartarian, others the Black Eagle. 



Adjourned. 



John W. Chambers, Secretary. 



June 130, 1863. 

 Mr. Adrian Bergen, of Long Island, in the chair. 



Grafting Wax. 



Nathan Shotwell, Elba, Genesee county, N. Y.,says he has grafted ex- 

 tensively for twenty years, and so have his brothers, as their father did 

 before them, and their rule for making wax is, for early \ise five to six 

 parts of rosin, one part of beeswax, and one part of tallow. When the 

 weather gets warmer, increase the proportion of rosin to seven parts. 

 Melt, pour in water, and grease the hands and work the mass thoroughly. 

 No farmer should allow trees bearing poor fruit to shade his soil when so 

 little trouble is necessary to convert the most miserable, worthless fruit 

 into the most delicious the country affords by grafting, which any one can 

 easily learn to do, when he knows how to make good wax, which he must 

 put on 60 as to shut out air and water from the whole cut surface where 

 the scion is inserted. 



How TO Grow Quinces. 



Edwin Reynolds, of Motomen, Fond du Lac county, Wis., says quince 

 bushes grow so fast there that they are sappy and winter kill ; hence no 

 fruit, and wants to know what to do. 



Dr. Crowell, who has given much attention to fruit growing upon his 

 farm in New Jersey, said the best remedy would be summer pruning; that 

 is, pinching off the terminal buds of all the most rapid growing branches, 

 which would make what remained more hardy. 



