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mencing next week with two of each kind, and continuing the 

 distribution every week. Those who want choice grafts will 

 do well to attend the future winter meetings. 



Subject for the next meeting, " Cotton, Wool and Corn." 



Adjourned. 



JOHN BRUCE, Secretary jyro tern. 



February 11, 1861. 

 Present, 110 members. Robert L. Pell in the chair. 

 The Secretary sent the following extracts. 



[London Farmers' Magazine, January, 1861.] 

 ITALIAN RYE GRASS 



Is more strenuously recommended than ever, especially for supe- 

 rior nutrition, but it does not thrive without much moisture and 

 especially liquid manure. 



NEW EDIBLE ROOTS. 



Root of our common caraway is used like parsnip. Root of 

 the water plantain " sagittaria sagitiifolia,'^ is as good as arrow 

 root. The Chinese and Japanese are fond of it. They cultivate 

 it. Mexicans make good flour out of cacomite bulbs, a Tigris. 

 Many of the caladiums and arums are used in southern Europe. 



The Paris Academy of Science recommends the shicarra, newly 

 come from New Grenada ; grows three feet high, is rich in sugar, 

 stands cold well. 



Barley root is well known as edible. The ocar of South 

 America is valuable : gives smajl potato-like tubers. Cultivated 

 in Bolivia and Peru. These tubers on long exposure to the sun 

 become like^g^ and are called carri. 



Lady Countess Chesterfield's figs take prizes frequently. 



JANUARY MARKETS. 



Best butter about 30 cents per lb.; beef, 18 cents per lb.; best 

 potatoes, $1 per 100 lbs. 



The Journal of Agriculture, Scotland, January, 1861, one of 

 the best published anywhere, has the following : 



THE TURNIP FLY. ^^Haltica JYcmorun.^' 

 The Rev. James Duncan gives a very valuable set of experi- 

 ments on preventives and remedies (a prize essay and took the 

 gold medal) he faithfully tried. This leaj)ing little beetle does 



