138 TEANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 



" Have some wax ready, made of rosin seven parts, tallow one part, well 

 melted together. This is to be put on hot. 



" Now heat your fruit in an enameled kettle till boiling commences, and 

 all parts are certainly brought to a proper heat. Have your jar hot, also 

 the wax. Dip in the fruit expeditiously, shako down, and run a straw 

 down to the bottom several times to let out bubbles of air. Fill the jar 

 even full. Then tie a strong cloth over the top with a piece of wrapping 

 twine. Shear off the corners and edges within half an inch of the string. 

 Then dip out some of the hot wax and pour it on the cloth capsule, wet 

 your hands in cold water and press and mould the wax over the whole 

 cover, letting it come over the edge so as to adhere to the jar all around, 

 and the job is done. 



"As the fruit cools it sinks down a little, and the capsule follows it, 

 forming a cup on the top, thus preventing any strain which favors a leak- 

 age of air." 



Quantity of Bone Dust to be Used per Acre. 



Mr. Wm. S. Carpenter. — It has been asked how much bone dust I use 

 per acre. On the heavy soil of Westchester we use the coarse bone dust, 

 twenty bushels of barn-yard manure, in which one bushel of bone dust is 

 mixed, will be decomposed in about twenty days. Land will bear any 

 amount of bone manure. I have used one hundred bushels per acre, on 

 sandy soils. The pure dust is the best. The cost is about $25 per ton. 

 Where the soil is light, sometimes the bone dust will remain in the soil 

 for twenty years. 



Adjourned. JOHN W. CHAMBERS, Secretary. 



August 5, 1862. 

 Rev. Joshua Weaver, of Fordham, N. Y., in the chair. 



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Agricultural Department at Washington. 



Mr. R. G. Pardee said that he thought it should be more generally known 

 that the chief clerk of the new Agricultural Department, at Washington, 

 is a citizen of New York, well known to many of us here, but not to the 

 farmers generally, as one of the most affable, as well as intelligent young 

 men. He is very anxious to be useful to American agriculture in his new 

 position, having always taken an active part in the promotion of its 

 improvement. Our friends throughout the country may rely upon the most 

 gentlemanly treatment in all their communications with Mr. McCormick. 

 No better selection could have been made for the position. 



Brakes and Worms. 



Mr. A. H. Hatch, Gilraanton Tron Works, N. H., asks the club to give 

 him information on the following subjects: 



" 1st. What is the most effectual way to kill out common pasture brakes? 



"2d. What must be done to old garden lots when worms of various 

 kinds infest the soil and repeatedly destroy whatever is sown and planted ?" 



