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Wyck, Lapaughj Chilson, B. Silliman, Esq., and others — sixty in 

 all. 



Robt. L. Pell, of Pelham, President of the Institute, in the chair. 



Henry Meigs, Secretary. 



The Secretary read the following papers, viz : 



Mons. L. A. Hiiguet Latour, of Montreal, Canada East, sends 

 to us the Fai-mers' Journal, of March, 1856, containing extracts 

 from the North British Agriculturist, of Edinburgh. We extract 

 the following : 



" The late Mr. Pusey, of Pusey, successfully raised beets and 

 carrots together, in alternate double rows. This gave a fuller 

 crop of each. The seeds of both the beets and carrots should be 

 steeped in liquid manure before planting until they chip !" 



Dr. Waterbury — I have seen the experiment tried of growing 

 beets and carrots in the same drill. The beets were dropped first, 

 and carrot next. The land w^as quite dry in June. E.uta bagas 

 were drilled in between the rows. The crop of carrots was large. 



William E,. Prince, of Flushing Long Island, spoke at large of 

 his endeavor to establish here the culture of the dioscorea batatas. 

 He has taken great pains in France to make himself acquainted 

 with this new root. He has strong hopes of success, and had ex- 

 pended considerable sums of money already on them. He had 

 some in the ground all winter at his garden, where the cold has 

 been as great as ten degrees below zero of Fahrenheit's thermom- 

 eter, and if the roots stand that, they will be proof against injury 

 from our climate, and our common potato is destroyed. Mr. 

 Prince invites all the members to visit his garden at the time this 

 dioscorea is in good order, to examine it thoroughly for them- 

 selves. 



Solon Robinson entertained great doubts of the success of the 

 experiments, although Mr. Prince has expended so much money 

 about it already. 



Dr. Wellington said that beets and carrots planted in the same 

 row gave larger crops. In one case a farmer, thinking that his 

 beets and carrots so planted were likely to fail, planted ruta 

 bagas between the rows, and got a good crop of each of the three 

 roots. The beets and carrots are thinned out at the right time, 

 so as to leave one beet and one carrot all through the rows. 



Dr. Waterbury, of the committee to enquire into tlie method 

 of feeding adopted by the different stage lines of this city, made 

 the following report : 



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