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tries." 
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The meeting then terminated. 
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Meeting held August 7th. — Mr. Luke M. Hill, Presi- 
dent, in the chair. 
Members present 13. 
Elections : — Associates : Messrs. Jas. E. Nightingale, 
jnr., James Gibson and H. A. Mathews. 
The President stated that he had seen Professor 
Spawn, who was engaged in putting up his banana 
drying machinery, which had just arrived. In the 
course of conversation the question of Alfalfa or 
Lucerne as a fodder plant had come up, and he (Mr. 
Hill) had written to Mr. R. Ward, who in reply had 
given him the following information about the plant : — 
''Its cultivation was not a success. Mr. Jenraan 
received a large (quantity of seeds from the Hon. B. H. 
Jones, some of whicli he sent to the different gold 
officers' stations throughout the colon}" with a note 
explaining how to sow and cultivate it, but from that 
date to this I have not heard liow any of them 
succeeded. Perhaps they never took tlie trouble to 
sow it ? The remaining portion of the seed we had 
sown in well prepared beds in the nursery ground. 
