232 TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



Mr. Allis, of Rochester, N". Y., exhibited a clover seed saving 

 machine. It works rapidly, gatliering the heads short and tall 

 at difierent cuttings, as it 'moves along. 



Messrs. Erowne & Chata exhibit hot bed frames, the glass 

 secured in lead ; to be had at No. 69 Gold street, New- York. 



Dr. Wellington — At Lexington, Mass., it is a practice to bury 

 the rocks on the place where they lie, instead of carrying them 

 off', and then plow up the sub-soil. A friend of mine has a sandy 

 place near Medford — land not fit for cultivation — having clay 

 within a reasonable distance, he carted it to a sandy field, left 

 it there in heaps until the following spring. He then spread it, 

 and cultivated it in beets and carrots. Some of those beets I saw 

 which weighed twenty pounds each. Seven acres of land so 

 treated with clay, yielded good crops where nothing grew befo.^e. 



Solon Robinson — The excessive prices of all crops show us that 

 we have taken to gold finding instead of corn planting and stock 

 raising. Necessity ought to compel us to go to work this year in 

 good earnest or look for some starvation. 



Mr. Enos Woodruff" exhibited his excellent self-acting gate. 



The club adjourned. 



H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



May 1, 1855. 



Present — Messrs. President Pell, Rev. Mr. Ganz, Martin E. 

 Thompson, Gritfin, of Jersey, Henry Sheldon, Pardee, James De 

 Peyster, Solon Robinson, Gibbs, Paul Stillman, Geo. E. Waring, 

 jr.. Dr. Peck, of Long Island; Enos Woodruff", of Jersey; Dr. 

 Wellington, Toucey, Judge V. Wyck, Frederick W. Geissen- 

 hainer, jr.. Napoleon Bonaparte Mountfort, M. Chilson, Pepper, 

 Brown, of Brattleboro' Vt., Vail, Wells, Green, Judge R. S. Liv- 

 ingston, and others. 



President Pell in the chair. Henry Meigs, Secretary. 



Addison P. Brown, of Brattleborough, Vt., exhibited nis new 

 patent windmill for farm and other uses. It acts so as to feather 

 edge its fans, and thus equalise its power. It was thought very 

 well of. 



The Secretary adverted to a plan for farm purposes, invented, 

 he believes, by himself, thirty or forty years ago, and drawn and 

 described in his common place book. That is, select a suitable 

 tree on the spot where the buildings are, or where they are to be, 

 of course on rather elevated land than on low. Build the barns 



