PROCEEDINGS OF THE FARMERS' CLUB. 271 



"You make the whole quantity of meat supplied for the year 1863 as 

 equal to 379,124,691 lb ; but you also state that large numbers of carcasses 

 are received which do not find their way into any reports. I assume the 

 quantity'- thus received to be about 20,000,000 lb, making- the aggregate 

 equal to 400,000,000 lb. This will give a daily consumption of 1,095,- 

 8631b. 



" I am satisfied by examination of the statistics of housekeeping of many 

 city families, the average daily consumption of fresh meat is equal to half a 

 pound a person, or three pounds to a family. This would be a small allow- 

 ance, but for the large amount offish, poultry and game also consumed. 



"Allowing, then, half a pound of meat to a person, and your markets is- 

 sue a meat ration to 2,191,126 persons daily. 



"But you will say the census shows no such number of people, and there- 

 fore the census gives a very imperfect idea of the vast congregation that 

 eat and sleep within ten miles of j^our City Hall. 



"Outside of that circle 200,000 will cover the number of people who 

 draw their daily supply from the city markets. 



" This leaves 2,000,000 as the number of people resident within the lim- 

 its of the city markets. The quantity taken for the army for the nav}^, for 

 the commercial marine, I assume as equal to the supply of 100,000 persona 

 daily, and it will not exceed that. I will also allow that the transient peo- 

 ple fed dail}'^ are equal to 200,000 men — and there is still a population in 

 New York and Brooklyn, and their immediate dependencies, of about 100,- 

 000 beyond the census returns of 1860. 



" I have no doubt you are feeding a resident population from your 

 markets of over a million and a half of people." 



Mad Itch in Cattle. 



Mr. W. L. Koons, Rochester, Fulton County Ind., says : "The mad itch 

 prevails here now. Three years ago one of my neighbors lost three valua- 

 ble cows by it. Can the Club answer what is the cause of the disease, and 

 what the cure ?" 



How Late Should Corn be Plowed. 



Mr. Koons also asks the following question : How late in the season or 

 at what stage or period in the growth of corn as the latest would you 

 recommend the plowing of it ? 



Mr. Wm. S. Carpenter advocated plowing it as late as he couid without 

 danger of breaking it down. He works his up to the time of tasseling, 

 and thinks the crop Very much improved by that course. 



Mr. Solon Robinson would use a turning plow but very little in corn. 

 He would at first, and up to the time it is large enough for second hoeing, 

 use Mape's subsoil lifter, and the horse-hoe. After the corn is large enough 

 to fill the ground with roots, he would not use any plow that would brake 

 the roots, but would keep the surface clean with a horse hoe or shovel plow 

 just as long as it would bo safe to work a horse between the roots. 



