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make your first payment. He does not tell you that fully one-half of 

 the men here will not be able to pay their interest this fall (and most 

 of them came here with more than $500), and in tact the majority of 

 the settlers will not be able to stay here after suffering all the incon- 

 veniences and privations of a new sttlement. A man, about to go to 

 a new settlement with $500, should if possible have a team to go with, 

 that will enable him to take along a few useful articles of light 

 weight, which it will be almost impossible to get along without. 

 And if he has pluck of the first water, and a wife that is ditto, and 

 willing to undergo all kinds of privations, then let him. strike out for 

 a quarter section, and, when he enters his homestead, "stick." He 

 must expect that his children will go barefoot, his wife ditto, and 

 himself ditto. His wife will patch his clothes as they need it, as well 

 as her own ; new ones will be out of the question for at least two 

 years. Industry, economy and perseverance are the only requisites 

 that will make for a poor man a farm on the prairie. 



Adjourned. 



January 9, 1872. 



Nathan C. Ely, Esq., in the chair; Mr. John W. Chambers, Secretary. 

 Grapes under Glass. 



Mr. Isaac C. Wilbour, Little Compton, E.. I., expressed a desire for 

 " some information relative to the profits and process of growing 

 grapes under glass without artificial heat, especially by a person 

 located a hundred miles from New York, and who must depend upon 

 commission houses for the sale of his fruit." 



Mr. A. S. Fuller — Mr. Wilbour should purchase and read "Allen's 

 Treatise on the Grape," and " Chorltoirs Grape Growers' Guide." 

 In these works he will find cost of structures necessary and other 

 practical information that he needs. "When he has read these works 

 and watched for awhile the market reports relating to the price of 

 grapes, he will be able to make up his mind whether it is best to 

 engage in such an enterprise or not. There are men who make 

 money out of their cold graperies, but many lose money. If a man 

 is obliged to employ a competent gardner to take care of his grape- 

 ries, he will need to produce a large quantity of fruit to pay expenses, 

 to say nothing of profits. 



Plowing. 

 The paper of the day was read by Mr. Henry Stewart. Some time 

 ago, he said, a correspondent of this Club asked for some information 



