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Dr. King stated that the turnip contained principles which were not to 
to be found in corn fodder and dry food. It was sometimes an advantage 
to enlarge the bulk of food, even if the increase in bulk were not digested. 
Mr. Isaac Newton agreed with the last statement, the cob was not so nu- 
tritious as the corn, yet it was true economy to grind them and feed them 
together, the grain alone was too heating. The ground cob kept down 
fever. In sowing his turnip seed, he used a machine which was carried by 
a man in front and supported by a strap passed over his shoulders. 
The Chair thought that machines for sowing turnip seed ought to be car- 
ried or drawn close to the ground, especially in windy weather. 
Dr. Elwyn reported the death of Chauncey P. Holcomb, Esq., and after 
paying a just tribute to the memory of the deceased, he offered a series of 
resolutions, which were unanimously adopted. 
Mr. Coats, of the City, exhibited a working model of his oblique hemp and 
corn cutter, and explained its mode of action. The machine is intended to 
run either between the corn rows or around the field ; it cuts the stalk, and 
lays them longitudinally behind it. There is one knife which strikes ob- 
liquely downward, and is suflficiently powerful to cut several sugar canes or 
corn stalks at one blow. 
Adjourned. 
291 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, June 9. 
My Dear Sir : 
My object, this morning, in making a verbal communication to the Agri- 
cultural Society was to suggest that the carcases of dogs killed under the 
" dog law," so called, might be employed to carry out, on a large scale, 
some experiments, of which I made mention to the Society some years since, 
in which fish or flesh was converted into a pulverizable mass, equivalent to 
guano. 
It would only be requisite to steep the animals in a solution of about 
three parts sulphuric acid, four parts of salt, and thirty of water, for from 
six to twelve hours, and subsequently to dry them under a shed, protecting 
from rain, or by an anthracite fire, as meat is smoked. 
Preferably the skin should be removed before the steeping, and the 
abdomen opened. 
The animals might, however, be stunned by a blow, and thrown into the 
solution. 
Or they might be injected by the solution, by the jugular artery, and also 
through the gullet or rectum. 
