390 TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



tion of the "American Camel Company/' passed April 15, 1854. 

 This company have issued a document, giving a history of the 

 camel and its commercial value. 



By the above act three commissioners were appointed with 

 power to create capital, and introduce the camel and dromedai-y 

 into the United States of America. 



Edward Magauran made some interesting remarks on the same 

 subject. 



George E. Waring, jr., spoke of his late crop of corn at Cha- 

 paqua, as being about sixty-five bushels per acre. 



Thomas Bell writes to the Club that on his new farm at Eat- 

 ontown, Jersey, by the use of the marl of his farm, has raised 

 upwards of three hundred bushels of good and large potatoes per 

 acre, and from fiffcy to seventy-five bushels per acre of Indian 

 corn. He uses no hoe — all the work is done by plows and cul- 

 tivators. The potatoes are large — best for the table in the spring; 

 but on trial at the table — they were generally deemed of good 

 quality, especially for spring consumption. Mr. Bell offers two 

 hundred and fifty bushels for sale for seed. 



Mr. Selleck, of Greenwich, Connecticut, presented a ruta baga 

 turnip grown by Mr. Morrell, on his little two acre island in the 

 Long Island sound, near the shore of Greenwich. This turnip 

 weighs eighteen pounds, having a leaf stalk four inches in diam- 

 eter, and much resembling the elephant's trunk. The soil there 

 is thin, on a rock which has been tried as proper for making por- 

 celain; small snail shells are in the soil, and birds have been in 

 the habit of visiting it much, formerly. 



Mr.Wells sent a red onion from California, measuring eighteen 

 inches and a half in circumference. 



Mr. Elliott, of Oregon, presented a white onion from Oregon, 

 of sixteen inches circumference, and a yam of twelve pounds 

 weight, very compact and solid. Specific gravity equal to green 

 oak wood. 



Judge Livingston presented pears from his seedling trees, here- 

 tofore called by the Club, the Livingston pear — having in the 

 opinion of all a very high, spicy delicious flavor, a Haut Gout. 



C. Edwards Lester, recently United States consul in Italy, laid 

 on the table, apples from his place at Spencertown, which on one 

 bough, had twenty-five apples, weighing twenty-seven and a 

 half pounds. The trees were grafted in a peculiar way; that is, 

 by uniting two grafts upon one stock. One graft from the En- 

 glish greening apple, and the other from the Piedmont pippin. 



