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carrots gelatinizes the mass of oats and hay too. Roots generally 

 are useful mixed with hay. As carrots can be raised at the rate 

 of several hundred bushels per acre, the great economy of their 

 use is very evident. 800 to 900 bushels are raised by some. 

 Carrots cause a horse's coat of hair to be much improved. I plant 

 oats with carrots, they keep the weeds down and do not harm the 

 carrots — Carrot is my horse doctor; most complaints of my 

 cattle are cured or relieved by them. 



Coleman — Do you mix them with other feed 1 



Mapes — Yes sir, and I find it best to cut them up in the usual 

 way, with the soil on them ; mix with oats or hay, and sprinkle 

 a little Indian meal over the mass. 



Prof. Marsh confirmed the opinion of Prof. Mapes, as to the 

 valuable property of carrots for cattle, owing to the pectic acid 

 in it. Parsnips are good for some stock. All roots have more 

 or less value as food for stock. 



The Chairman called for subjects for the next meeting. 



Solon Robinson proposed ' ' The advantages of a garden to a 

 farmer.'' Adopted in addition to " Irrigating machines" and the 

 "potato.'' 



Seeds were distributed ; among them many packages from the 

 Hon. Charles Mason, Commissioner of Patents. 



The Club adjourned to April 22d5 at noon. 



H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



April 22, 1856. 



Present — Messrs. Judge Scoville, Hon. Ogden Edwards, Dr. 

 Smith, Mr. Oakley, Mr. Birdseye, of North Carolina; Winthrop, 

 Atwill, of Iowa; James 0. Miller, of Orange co.; Mr. Daniel C. 

 Robinson, Solon Robinson, Dr. Peck, of Brooklyn; Mr. Coleman, 

 of Canandaigua; Mr. Brower, of Hoboken ; Mr. T. W. Field, of 

 Brooklyn; Mr. West, Geo. Andrews, Mr. Bouton, Adrian Bergen, 

 of Gowanus; Prof. Marsh, of Vermont; Dr. Wellington, John 

 W. Chambers, and others — nearly eighty in all. 



Ro])ert L. Pell, President of the Institute, in the chair, Henry 

 Meigs, Secretary. 



The Secretary read the following extracts translated by him 

 from an interesting botanical paper by Professor Klotzsch of the 

 Academy of Science, in Berlin : 



