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cut up, which Mr. Robinson replied to by stating that it should 

 be cut up in the tall. 



Dr. Peck stated that the plan for raising early vegetables, of 

 taking a thin strip of picket or board, making a square box, and 

 covering it with gauze, so as to let in light and air, and exclude 

 frost, was a good one. 



Mr. AtAVood remarked that he had seen the plan extensively 

 pursued at the North American Phalanx, witlrthe boxes covered 

 with common millinett; and anather gentleman that he had seen 

 many thousand of these boxes successfully used, with the covering 

 made of coarse and cheap white muslin. 



Mr. Waring inquired what was the best variety of oats for the 

 latitude of New- York. 



Mr. Bergen considered the raising of oats near New- York city 

 as poor business, from the fact that it was necessary so much to 

 enrich the ground for market gardening purposes, that oats when 

 grown would run to straw and tumble down continually. Oats 

 raised on Long Island were light. He would not recommend the 

 sowing of seed oats from that neighborhood, but to change as 

 often as possible. 



A gentleman considered the subject of oats one of great im- 

 portance. It was necessary, so far as possible, to procure such 

 varieties as would be heavy and clear of woody fibre. 



Mr. Bergen considered it best to use as little sod ground as pos- 

 sible, and to depend most upon light and mellow lands for oats. 



Mr. Had seen oats seven feet high, raised in Maine, with- 

 out falling or lodging. He asked what was the proper quantity 

 to be sown per acre. 



Mr. Bergen remarked that he considered two and a half bushels 

 as the proper quantity. 



Mr. Vail said that in Columbia county, N. Y., and near Plain- 

 field, N. J., the best oats were raised on the heaviest soils. 



Mr. Atwood said that in Monmouth county, New-Jersey, the 

 best farmers selected the lowest and wettest of the tillable lands 

 for the raising of oats. 



Mr. Judd had noticed that New- Jersey oats were commonly 

 quoted as considerably lower in the market than Western. 



A gentleman suggested that the reason was that they were 

 raised upon light soil. 



Mr. Atwood said that some of the heaviest lands in Monmouth 

 county, raised the very lightest oats. 



Mr. Waring stated that it was well known that oats raised 



