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Brooklyn, Alderman Jones, Judge Van Wjck, Samuel Fleet, Rev. 

 Mr. White, of Staten Island, Mr. Vail, Paul Stillman, of the 

 Novelty steam engine works, Mr. Leigh Van Eoskerck, Fisher, 

 Dr. Gardner, Mr. Phcenix Orange Judd, Chai-les Oakley, Law- 

 ton, of New Rochelle, and others, 75 members in all. 



Hon. Robert Swift Livingston in the chair. 



Henry Meigs, Secretary. 



Buel's bayonet hoe was exhibited by William Lawton, of New 

 Rochelle, and its working qualities explained. It is an excellent 

 worker in loosening the soil about plants without hurting the 

 roots, and also acts somewhat like a hoe when its side edge and 

 not its point is used. 



Prof. Mapes exhibited plowshares highly polished, and pointed 

 out the Jefferson straight lines in its curvatures. Also his sole 

 plow models. He will exhibit his new digging and forking tiller 

 next Friday and Saturday, at work on his farm. 



Rev. Mr. White, of Staten Island — I ask why are not carrots 

 more used here ? The English have eaten freely of carrots, gen- 

 eration after generation. Twenty years ago I had twenty acres 

 of them. The carrot of England is smaller but sweeter than oui'S. 

 It is a very valuable food for animal or man. I am astonished 

 that we do not raise more of them in the United States. 



Solon Robinson — Potatoes now sell by retail at from two dol- 

 lars and a half to three dollars a bushel, and a bushel of carrots 

 for fifty cents ! No vegetable is of so healing a nature as the 

 carrot. Stew carrots in lard for an ointment excellent for bui-ns, 

 old sores, sore backs of horses, &c. 



Mr. Leigh — I have paid $2.50 a barrel for carrots for my horse. 

 They cure sores. 



Rev. Mr. White — I cured myself of bad symptoms in my inte- 

 rior by using carrot poultices on the exterior. I felt the effect 

 throughout my whole body so strong that I occasionally took it 

 oif, but I was cured, after having sufiered before this cure for two 

 years . 



Mr. Phcenix — I scrape the carrot and then stew it with lard. 



Dr. Gardner — Americans are more dyspeptic than Europeans. 

 We eat too much and too rich soup, albumen and fat, which are 

 not easily digestible. The boarding houses fiu-nish strong, rich 

 soups, and of course, dyspepsia. Carrots are good food for ro- 

 bust working men. Carrots contain a great deal of nutrition, so 

 that moderation as to the quantity eaten per day, must be ob- 



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