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Solon Robinson proposed— Market Gardening, and the manner 

 of selling, and the ordinances regulating them. 



Adrian Bergen— I repeat that if others have succeeded with 

 the iron fences, some of us have not. I hope they may yet he 

 more successful. Once in order, and capable of remaining so, 

 the iron fences will be great gains to farmers. The wood of our 

 fences is of incalculable amount in timber and in labor, and per- 

 petually rotting down, and demanding more timber and more 



labor. 



The Chairman called to mind the native grape from Mount 

 Holyoke, an excellent grape. We have also a white native grape, 

 a very good one, and has been cultivated by some. 



Henry Miles, of Moulton, Vermont, exhibited on the floor the 

 action of his Hand Corn Planter, which he calls a Quaker Gu7i, 

 (Mr. Miles is a Quaker.) a^his is a common hoe, having a small 

 tin hopper on the upper side of the handle. In this the corn is 

 put. One hand grasps a loose wooden tube around the handle, 

 the other, as usual, near the end of the hoe. As the hoe enters 

 the ground it is drawn back an inch or two, and instantly grains 

 of corn pass down from the hopper through a small tin tube to 

 the bottom of the hoe handle, and there, by a recurved bit of 

 thin iron, is thrown into the hole opened by the hoe. The planter 

 then advances his foot, and plants in on the spot where the grain 

 is dropped, thus giving to that hill a suitable pressure. 



Questions adopted for next meeting— Grape-Houses; Insects 

 in Wheat, and Market Gardeners, and Ordinances relating to 

 Sales, &c. 



Adjourned to June 12th, at noon. 



H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



June 12, 1855. 



Present— Captain Holmes, Dr. Field of Brooklyn, Prof. Mapes, 

 Solon Robinson, Orange Judd, Messrs. Stacey, Russ, Gore of Jer- 

 sey, John W. Chambers, Geo. Bacon, Pardee, Wm. B. Leonard, 

 Lemuel Leonard c£ Taunton, Mass., a farmer of hard work at 73 

 years of age. Prof. Geo. E. Waring, Judge Van Wyck, Charles 

 Oakley, Rev. Samuel White of Staten Island, Dr. Austin Church, 

 Kurios Charestus Evangelides of the Lyceum of Athens, Greece, 

 and many others— fifty members in all. 



Dr. T. W. Field of Brooklyn in the chair. Henry Meigs, Sec- 

 retary. 



