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Four years ago he liad sown six hundred acres of worn out lands near the 
Potomac with guano. The yield of wheat was wonderful, and the clover 
■which had been plentifully sown, at the rate of ten quarts of seed to the 
acre was most luxuriant. The year following he had spread with plaster 
turned the clover under and guano again. The crops since had been very 
fine. Last year was not favorable to guano on account of the drought. 
That manure needed moisture. In Virginia the practice had been under 
slavery to sow no grass seed with their wheat. Give him guano, free labor 
grass seed, and a little plaster, and he would undertake to renew in a short 
time all the worn out lands in the Old Dominion. 
Adjourned. 
Wednesday/, March 7th, Stated Meeting. — Mr. Landreth, President in 
the chair. After the reading of the minutes the following gentlemen pre- 
viously proposed were elected members, viz : 
Messrs. Wm. Hacker and J. T. Balderston, of Philadelphia, and Mr. A. 
Ter Hoeven, of Frankford. 
Three propositions for resident membership were received. 
The Secretary reported having sent to additional kindred societies, copies 
of the published minutes of the society. Letters acknowledging the receipt 
of copies were read from John Day, President of the Bradford Farmers' 
Club, Westchester County, N. Y., and from Gen. J. T. Worthington, Presi- 
dent of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, Chillicothe, Ohio. Copies of 
the proceedings of the Ohio State Board, and of the Pennsylvania State 
Agricultural Society, received in exchange, were presented. 
The Executive Committee recommended that action on the question of 
holding an exhibition next Autumn be postponed until next meeting. 
Mr. A. G. Roberts, in behalf of the Committee on annual appropriation, 
reported that the old county appropriation would be continued this year by 
the present city government. 
Dr. A. L. Kennedy, from the delegation to the United States Agricultur- 
al Society, reported the proceedings of that body at its late session in 
Washington, neither the time nor place of holding the annual exhibition of 
that society had been determined. The question had been left with the 
President and Executive Committee. 
Mr. Isaac Newton offered a resolution appointing a committee to confer 
with the President of the United States Society, on the propriety of their 
next exhibition being held in Philadelphia, which, after discussion by Messrs. 
