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tillage is a matter of the highest importance. Trenching for 

 gardening purposes is very important, and yet I find there are 

 many persons in this country who do not fully understand the 

 meaning of the term. It is deep spading, and so reversing the 

 soil as to make the ground for two or three spades deep of a 

 good tilth. 



SolcJn Robinson said that what was wanted most was to con- 

 vince men that tunneling almost any land would be profitable; 

 that the increased product would pay the increased expense. For 

 my part, said Mr. E., I am fully satisfied that no gardener can 

 allbrd to cultivate land that has not been thoroughly tunneled, 

 at least three feet deep; and as for vineyards, we know very 

 well that it is useless to try to grow them upon untunneled soil 

 in any situation in this country. 



George E. Waring — I saw land at Cincinnati that had been 

 trenched at a cost of $60U per acre. This was for grapes, but I 

 never seen such garden vegetables as were growing upon deep- 

 trenched land near that city. 



Braining. — I take pleasure in announcing the establishment in 

 this country of a company for surveying larms and draining land. 

 That is, farm engineers, who will make all the necessary surveys 

 and estimates of cost of draining or otherwise improving a farm. 



Salt for stock. — Solon Robinson said he would put on record 

 the following opinion of an intelligent Illinois farmer upon the 

 use of salt for stock. It is from Mr. A. Churchill, Kranesville, 

 111., who writes in February as follows : 



" We are now keeping our stock without salt, and all look well 

 and are doing well, with the exception of a calf spoken of in a 

 previous communication. Our horses require less water and less 

 oats than last winter, when they were fed salt regularly once a 

 week; and our brood mares and colts are in better condition, 

 less bloated and more lively." 



Mr. Waring moved that one of our next subjects be "The cul- 

 tivation of oats." 



Mr. Pell seconded it. 



Mr. Vail proposed " Irrigating Machines." 



Mr. Judd — Let the spring work be continued. 



The three questions were adopted, and the Club adjourned. 



H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



