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He did not sympathise with this talk about losing manure by 

 evaporation. If it went into the air it came back again. 



Mr. Fuller. — Yes, but then it may come on some one else's 

 lot 



Mr. Gale said what evaporated did not go above the atmos- 

 phere, to heaven. Nature puts all her manures and seeds on the 

 surface. He had seen sometimes where, manure had been put in 

 a corn hill, and a drought coming on after a month or, two the 

 manure would be then dried in the hill. If this had been put 

 on in a dissolved state or earlier it would not have been so. 



Dr. Waterbury said that sometimes it depended much upon the 

 fact that farmers were hurried in getting in their crops, that 

 they were obliged to manure afterwards upon the top. 



The same question was continued, with the addition suggested 

 by Mr. Pardee, of "spring fruits and flowers." Adjourned. 



JOHN BRUCE, Secretary pro tern. 



April 1, 1861. 

 Judge R. S. Livingston in the chair. 



TRUIT BUDS DESTROYED. 



Mr. Carpenter. — Owing to the severity of the frost- in the fore 

 part of March, the peach buds and cherry buds have been des- 

 troyed in many localities. Where the orchard was not exposed 

 to the morning sun, he had found the buds uninjured. 



Mr. Lawton had found his trees uninjured. His plan had been 

 to plant three or four hundred peach trees every season, and when 

 they have yielded one or two crops to cut them down for fire 

 wood. He did not expect a crop oftener than once in three or 

 four years. He did not consider a peach tree of much more im- 

 portance, in Westchester county, than a hill of corn, it is so easily 

 produced and so little to be depended upon. 



Dr. Trimble had had his peaches and apricots escape for 

 a series of ten years, while his neighbors lost two crops out of 

 three ; his orchard being shaded from the morning sun. If the 

 thermometer sinks more than 18 degrees below zero, at anytime in 

 the winter the buds will be destroyed, and with a less degree of 

 cold in the spring or fall. 



Mr. Carpenter believed that the thermometer might sink more 

 than 20 degrees below zero without injury to the trees, if shaded 

 from the morning sun. He had had trees escape with the ther- 



