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Maiden lane, in this city. It can be worked by a small sized 

 windmill, and by hose, convey a stream up to suitable reservoirs 

 on higher ground, whence it may be distributed readil3\ This 

 force pump can be worked by a child of four years old, who 

 can force the water through hose, one hundred and twenty feet 

 high. 



Mr. Brewster, of Trenton, Jersey, said that his new windmill 

 of about eight feet diameter, raised water at the rate of two hun- 

 dred gallons a minute, twenty feet high. The price of this mill 

 is about fifty dollars. 



Mr. Wild has known Mr. Warner's pump since last July, and 

 considers it a useful one. 



Mr. Atwood, of Jersey, has been endeavoring to get a good one; 

 has seen Brewster's and likes that best. It will do the work of 

 a fire engine in case of fire. 



President Pell calls Dr. Wellington to the chair as he is obliged 

 to leave the club. 



Mr. Winthrop Atwill, of Iowa, at the invitation of the club, 

 proceeded to give an /interesting description of that State : he 

 said the climate of Iowa is equal to any in the United States; the 

 impression has been that the country is one of fever and ague. 

 This is not so. It is a beautiful rolling country, interspersed with 

 little clusters of oaks. The constant rolling of the surface secures 

 a perfect drainage. Illinois is flatter. Mr. A. had seen but one 

 case of fever and ague, in Iowa. There is much said of cholera 

 in the valley of the Mississippi. There was a great difference 

 between the upper and lower portions of the valley of the Mis- 

 sissippi. Some cases of cholera had been landed at Davenport, 

 from steamboats from St. Louis. Iowa is one of the most pro- 

 ductive States in the Union. A fruit growers' convention was 

 held last year at Burlington. Some of the delegates brought fine 

 specimens from the east, but they were so impressed by the fine 

 fruits of Iowa, that they did not choose to show their fruit. 

 Twenty-five to thirty bushels of corn to the acre, are yielded on 

 the first sowing of the field, which is called " sod corn." 



The field is then burnt over and put down in wheat, and it 

 will yield on an average, fifty bushels to the acre. The reaping 

 and threshing are generally performed by machinery. The soil 

 is fat and unctuous, like the mud on Broadway. There are corn 

 fields of a thousand acres, inclosed in a wire fence. Coal crops 

 out in almost every part of Iowa. The houses are balloon houses, 

 and are considered even stronger than the houses framed as at 



