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.vay, is always attentive to those who seek information and 

 purchase. 



Mr. Robinson moved an adjournment for three weeks. 



Mr. Judd — Let it be to the regular day, the first Tuesday in 

 October, at the Crystal Palace, and invite the ladies. 



The Club unanimously adopted the motion and adjourned. 



H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



JYovember 20, 1855. 



Present — Twenty-four members. Austin Church, M. D., in 

 the chair. 



Henry Meigs, Secretary. 



The Secretary read a report of a committee appointed by the 

 managers of the fair to view and report upon the farm of Mr. 

 Charles Wilson, at Deer Park, Long Island. (For a report of 

 tills farm see Index.) 



Adrian Bergen, farmer, of Long Island — A deep prejudice 

 against the fertility of Hempstead Plains, &c., is felt by a large 

 number of the inhabitants of the island, and by the oldest settlers, 

 being with them deepest. I have now farmed about fifty years. 

 1 do not believe the land naturally barren, but that it can be 

 farmed with proper work and manure. On preservation of vege- 

 tables, I have lately tried potatoes by putting some in cellar and 

 some in barn. Those in cellar commenced rotting, and I had to 

 pick them over carefully and throw away the bad ones, while 

 those in my dry ham are all sound. 



Solon Robinson described a new potato digger, very superior 

 fur taking them out of the ground without bruising or cutting 

 them as the hoe often does, and also leaving fewer undug than 

 by the old hoe process. It does as much as ten hoemen can do. 



Mr. Bergen — I have one, and like it. They call it the potato 

 plough. 



Mr. Pardee — I like the doctrine of the report of the committee 

 as to Long Island land, on the interesting trial so successfully 

 made by Mr. Wilson on the condemned dreary tract of Deer Park. 

 I have tried it. The drainage mentioned as due to the sub-stratum 

 of pebbles, the actual quality of the soil, climate, &c. Soon will 

 intelligent me?i till it. One man can make of ten acres of it a 

 noble market garden, and here are now a million of people to buy 

 the vegetables, and in twenty or thirty years double that number 

 must look chiefly to Long Island gardens for their mighty de- 

 mands. 



