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Edward Warren, of Sandusky, Ohio, June 1, 1855, places be- 

 fore the Club his plan for purifying grain by wliat he terms self- 

 acting process — that is showering the grain in order to pass air 

 through it. 



THE STORAGE OF GRAIN. 



The attention of warehousemen, and dealers in grain, gene- 

 rally, is directed to the important communication of Mr. Edward 

 Wai-ren, on the subject of " Warehouse Weevil," which may be 

 found in this morning's Register. It contains much valuable in- 

 formation, from one who is thoroughly posted up in the subject 

 he discusses. For the past five or six years Mr. Warren has been 

 engaged in the large grain house of the Sandusky, Mansfield and 

 Newark Railroad Co., at this place; and, according to the written 

 statement of A. H. Earber, Esq., late President of the Co., and 

 J. A. Pinto, Esq., late general freight agent, his skill and labors 

 were eifectual in saving some 200,000 bushels of wheat from se- 

 rious damage, if not entire loss, during the heat of a single summer. 



Mr. Warren has hit upon a method of carrying out his sugges- 

 tions relative to the preservation of game, at once simple and 

 effectual. It is a self-acting, shifting apparatus, by which the 

 grain is carried from floor to floor of a warehouse, in such a man- 

 ner that every particle is brought in contact with the air and kept 

 in motion; thus preventing injury from confined air and inert 

 contact of the particles with each other. Nothwithstanding its 

 simplicity and the small cost of applying it to houses constructed 

 in the ordinary mode, the principles of its operation are purely 

 philosophical and it must prove eminently valuable. He has 

 taken the necessary steps to secure the benefits derivable from 

 the authorship of his ingenious plan, by caveat. So far as we 

 can judge, this method of preventing loss in the storage of grain, 

 particularly in the large depreciation to which corn is subject, 

 must come into general use. 



The Secretary called the atteittion of the Club to the good 

 doings in the Legislature of Michigan State Agricultural College, 

 and experimental farm. The executive committee meets at Lan- 

 sing on the 12th of June, instant, to select the farm which is to 

 be not less than 500 acres nor more than 1,000, to be located 

 within ten miles. Micliigan has given for premiums for 1855 

 and '56, $2,000 each year, to the State Agricultural Society — the 

 Society to provide like amounts. 



Messrs. C. M. Saxton & Co., presented to the Club B. Munn's 

 essay on practical land draining with drawings. 



