AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 3J)T 



honorary members. Its funded property is £10,000 in the new three per 

 cent stock. Its late Secretary, Mr. Hudson, was dismissed for embezzle- 

 ment of its property. Mr. Brandreth Gibbs is now honorary secretary. 

 But Mr. Henry Hall Dane is secretary elect, with a salary of £400 sterling, 

 and house, fire and light. An editor of the Society's journal is to be 

 appointed, with a salary of £500 sterling. 



At their last cattle show, at Chester, they received for admission over 

 £6,000 sterling. Expenditures, over £9,000 sterling. 



At Warwick, receipts, £5,461. Expenditures, £7,468. 



How is this? Our losses by the terrible conflagration of the Crystal 

 Palace and other losses, did not come near this'last of over £4,000, sterling, 

 §20,000. 



John C. Morton, on Agricultural Maxima, is a good essay on the extra- 

 ordinary crops and animals occasionally found. 



GRASS. 



Near Ayr, Italian rye grass on copious manures and flooding, guano, 

 ammonia, 100 tons of water on an acre. Four bushels of seed per acre.iu 

 autumn, brushed in. First cut in June, 10 to 12 tons, then 300 to 400 lbs. 

 of mixed Peruvian guano and sulphate of ammonia, washed in by 100 tons 

 of water, in which also are the dung of 48 cows. In five weeks cut 3 feet 

 high 16 to 20 tons per acre, then a like manuring, and the third cut iu 

 September of 16 to 18 tons, and in October 10 to 12 tons more. In two 

 years 7 cuts yielded from 80 to 100 tons of green grass. 



The record of the results of drainage are very valuable. 



THE EXPERIMENTS IN TOP-DRESSINGS FOR WHEAT, BY PROF. YOELCKER. 



One conclusion is given, viz. : " That all artificial manures, such as 

 nitrate of soda, guano, or a mixture of nitrate of soda and salt, should not 

 only be passed through a fine sieve, but they should also be mixed with from 

 three to five times their own weight of fine red ashes, dry soil, or sand, 

 before sowing them broad-cast by hand, or what is better and more conve- 

 nient, by the broad-cast manure distributor. That made by Chambers, or 

 that by Beeves, cannot be too highly recommended for uniform, even and 

 expeditious sowing of these top dressings. 



THE WATER DRILL 



Works well, watering the plants in their drills with the liquid manures. 

 Reeves' new machine does it well. It is an improvement upon Chamber's 



SORGHUM SACCHARATUM. — CHINESE SUGAR CANE. 



By Prof. Voelcker. — Analysis of plants of five feet high from the farm 

 of the Boyal Agricultural Society, at several periods of its growth. No 

 sugar in it in Augxist, but in September, 32 per cent, in dry canes. 



Mr. E. Merriam, the meteorologist, of Brooklyn, introduced the Princess 

 of the Ojibway, alias Chippewa nation of Indians, who is about visiting 

 the Queen of England. She spoke eloquently of the success of her nation 

 in the pursuits of civilization, schools, agriculture, &c., and was applauded 



