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eagerness of the fish is an interesting sight ! — their bright eyes, 

 fine teeth. Often do they leap out of water to catch the falling 

 bait. 



The housekeepers send for a suitable fish for dinner shortly 

 before the time to cook it. The person has a strong line and 

 hook, with or without bait ; he lets it down and the fish rush 

 toward it, and he must be expert to let it drop to the mouth of 

 the Grouper, Hamlet, Snapper, White or Blue Band Porgie, &c., 

 which he wants. Such a fish never appears on the tables of the 

 Northern States, and yet every town on our sea coast ought to 

 have them. And when the poor fisherman has caught more than 

 he can sell, he loses often greatly. Whereas the pond would be 

 a sort of deposit bank, always ready and better fish. I have 

 tried it on our shore, feeding the fish with clams, fattening them 

 in a fortnight, 



Mr, Rockwell, of Connecticut, addressed the Club in favor of 

 wine-making of common grapes, and other fruits, by adding coarse 

 sugar to the juice. He contends that Connecticut wild grapes 

 will make as good wine as can be made from the Delaware 

 grapes. 



Mr. Steele, of Connecticut, contended that grapes can be culti- 

 vated so as to ripen four weeks earlier than ordinary, and suffi- 

 ciently ripe to make good wine, without sugar. 



Dr. Trimble, of New Jersey, contended that all the sweetened 

 beverages that he had tasted lacked but one thing, and that was 

 the taste of wine. 



Andrew S. Fuller — Mr. Rockwell insists that fermentation of 

 sugar does not produce alcohol. He is mistaken ; fermentation 

 produces it, and distillation separates it. This sugared v/ine is 

 not pure — it is one-fourth alcohol. Much of the imported wine 

 is sugared. Some of the best wine cannot be imported ; we can- 

 not move from place to place the very best wines made of pure 

 grape juice. 



Mr. Gale — Last season I had a small grape vine which I fed 

 with liquid manure, while another vine in the next yard was not 

 fed. From my vine I got half a bushel of excellent grapes, while 

 my neighbor got none. 



Mr, John Chappellsmith, of New Harmony, Indiana, communi- 

 t:ated the following, on 



