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cle SO near perfect is oifered them, and one of such vast benefit, 

 we are justified in urging them at once to adopt it, both as a 

 great labor-saving machine, and one that is well calculated to 

 promote the happiness of man and beast. We do not wish to in- 

 dorse any man's invention as the best,but wish there were twenty 

 more, and better than any of these, and that farmers could be in- 

 duced to put up such cheap machinery for so many purposes that 

 it could be applied to with such inexpensive motive power. The 

 use of windmills upon farms should be discussed by all fai-mers 

 until they are as fully satisfied as the few who have used them 

 of their great advantage. 



On motion of Mr. Solon Robinson, the questions for next meet- 

 ing of the club were adopted, viz : 



" Winter feeding of stock," proposed by Dr. W^aterbury. " The 

 necessary and most advisable prej^aration for spring work.'' 



Mr. Meigs said that he had, as he thought, made a useful dis- 

 covery in relation to windmills for farm use, about forty years 

 ago, and had made a drawing and description of it in his common 

 place book, viz : That when our farmer makes a new settlement 

 let him select the strongest tree on the spot where he desires to 

 build his dwelling and barn, and trim that tree of its largest 

 branches, so as to suit his convenience. Build the barn, stables, 

 &c., all around it. That tree is the tower to support his wind- 

 mill. It might cost five dollars to trim it; and a tower of equal 

 strength cannot be built for two hundred times that sum. It will 

 last a long time, and defy all gales of wind ! The windmill at- 

 tached to it (Brown's) costs a mere trifle in comparison with the 

 work it can do in the year, grind, saw, pump, churn, &c., &c. 



The club then adjourned to the first Tuesday in March next, 

 at noon, March 4. 



H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



March 4, 1856. 



Present — Messrs. President Pell, Judge Livingston, Solon Rob- 

 inson, Anderson, Birdseye, of Ohio ; Leonard, Pardee, Turell, 

 Jean Blanc, of New Orleans; Robinson, Rev. Mr. Carter, of 

 Brooklyn; Elliott, Theodore D wight, Barney, Chilson, Geissen- 

 hainer, Judd, Ireland, of Fire Place, Long Island ; Geo. Waring, 

 jr., and others — forty-three in all. 



Hon. Robert Swift Livingston in the Chair, Henry Meigs, Se- 

 cretary. 



