220 TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



was done. We now see that the Jarvis and Baker islands are shipping 

 home heavy cargoes of the American Pacific guano. July 3d, 1859, 

 Jarvis Island, the clipper ship Phantom, of Boston, 1,000 tons. 



do do Victory, of New York, 1,000 tons. 



do do Argo, do 1,600 tons. 



do do Gosport, do per cargo. 



do do Polynesian, do 1,100 tons. 



do do Josephine, do per cargo. 



do do Modern Times, do do 



Probably 7,000 tons, and new islands of guano discovered. 



The 7,000 tons are worth over a qiiarttr of a million of dollars to the 

 Guano Co.; and to the farms of the United States in increased production 

 (as 200 lbs. fertilizes a proper acre — 70,000 acres) of at least 20 per cent 

 crop, say four bushels of wheat per acre — 280,000 bushels, worth more in 

 profit to us than the whole cost. In much land this guano gives fifty per 

 cent crop, or eight bushels profit, or over 500,000 bushels. 



[E-cvue Horticole, Paris, June, 1859.] 

 GRAFTING BY APPROACH 



Is recommended in the following way. The side of the graft is pared off 

 so as to fit as nearly as possible a spot pared off a stock near the ground ; 

 the graft and the stock are secured as usual, the butt end of the graft 

 being set in a jar of water. 



Subject for next meeting. 



By Solon Robinson. — " The best manner of preparing ground and seed 

 for winter grain." 



The Club then adjourned to Monday, August 1st, 1859. 



H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



August 1, 1859. 



Present, 36 members. Mr. Thomas W. Field, in the chair. 



The Secretary, after making souie remarks on the steam plow, read ex- 

 tracts, translations, &c., made by him from the foreign and home publica- 

 tions, received by the Institute since the last meeting, viz : 



THE STEAM PLOW 



Is about producing a revolution on our farms quite analogous to that on 

 the seas. Europe has anxiously sought for it — declares that it is about 

 coming. We have said that if human ingenuity can do it, Americans will 

 first appear with it. 



A few days ago the American, Favrkes, exhibited his plow, and seems 

 to have triumphed, with his 40 acres a day. As with the mowing ma- 

 chines, so with this, time saved is great additional wealth. When the 

 frost leaves the farm the farmer always longs to have it plowed, if it could 

 possibly be, in one day, that he may plant. And the machine, after plow- 

 ing, is a movable mill. It can pump a large stream of water up to the 

 house and barn, saw wood, plane planks, churn butter, turn all mills and 



