New-York daily tribune., 1854-09-07
PUBLIC MEETINGS.
AMERICAN INSTITUTE FARMERS CLUB.
TUESDAY, Sept. 4.-GEo l.. WARING in the Chair
Henry Mics SecretarY

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HENRY MEIGs Secretary.
FIELD OF WHEAT.
Judge MEICs read letter from Mr. Wlring con.
tainhg an estimate per acre yield of wheat ia the
Gebefee Valley, which he gave in his Elements of
agriculture, at l2i bushels, which Col johnson
assures HIM is 10 bushels.
SOLoN ROBIssOS said that in estimating the Weld
of all crops far his observation extends ares
thar resped the only counted while thou.
sands Of acres are sown that never mature crop,
yet should be counted in estimating the yield per acre
of wheat. All sown. not what is reaped should
90 into the estimate of arabic products of any
country.
Prot MAPEs cOncurred in this view and said that
he thought the estimated yield per acre was generally
given too high II wss no. rated at l2J bushels per
acre in the State of New -YOrk-it was once 80
bushels at period, too, not very remote, the Mo-
hawk Valley farmers used to make floic TO haul the
manure away from ther barns tothrow into the river
AUSTRALIA.
The Secretary introduced Mr.. j. G. SAwKIss, late
from Australia who made some remal Ks upon that
county. Wool is the great staple class called
Squatters, rent land Of the Government at ten sh-
hngs square mile and stock 1t with five ten or ht-
teen thousand sheep, originally brought from Ger
many. They increase here at the rate of 95 per cent
a year. Some men occupy sixty miles of land, and
get nch enough in few years to retire, selling out
their flock and land claim to some other adventurer.
Factors furnish supplies and sell the clip they do
the cotton planters in this country. Hence they
qure great bank accommodations owing 10 the time
consumed in vOyag The bank capital of the cOun
try is f3 07O OoO and discounts 25 per cent advance
that Large herds Of cattle are kept under care Of
herdsmen. They branded in a curious way. They
are driven through narrow driyeways between yards,
and men ON the fence each side, provided with hot
irons silk the mark they pass. Wheat in latitude
40 yields 80 bushels per acre. Christmas is har
vest time. The country IL volcanic; much of the
lar still smokes and all the rivers inland to the
great desert, never traversed by white men. Coal is
found at the sea level and 400 feet above. There
have been four upheavals. The great farming region
- anf he / haUa trotsa oil
200 miles, that rises 2 miles from the coast and run.
interior, toward the west
HASD.REARisG CALVES.
A. A. Moss of South Norwalk, Conn, exhibited a
simple plan for rearing calves gutta percha teit
is affixed TO tin can, filled with skim milk, hay "a,
or other food which, being hung up in the calf pen,
is taken as naturally though it the teat Of the
cow With the use of this little machine-c0stny
perhaps couple Of dollars-the 1000 calves weekly
sacrificed 10 this City before Hey acquire age enough
to make food fit for human stOmachs, can be saved,
without loss OF milk 10 those engaged in dairy bus.
ness, and thus save a vast number of animals for
beeves, now wholly lost to the world.
LIMA BEANS
Prof. MAPEs exhibited specimens Of lima beans
grown by the use of ntrogeDized phosphate that is
by grinding dried blood with his improved super .phos
phate OF lime. He only allows his vines To grow 81
feet high-thnking it unreasonable to compel gin
OF sap 10 90 through vine 40 feet long TO make
bean-pOd which will never perfect its fruit
when the whole of that strength can be applied near
the root to the production of be1n which will be
doubled In quantity, and all get ripe before Frost
FLAX MACHINE.
Prof. MAPEs said that 30 900 tuns of fax straw il
wasted In Ohio, where it ID grown and threshed for
seed. A. II. Carryl has invented machine which
does not cost over $500, By which he make
svo lbs OF lint per tun, worth sl40. The Fall River
FAX Company can up all that is grown. There
great demand for these machines for making lint OF
tangled fax straw. II would be invaluable TO the
psper-makers
IMPROVING POTATOES.
DR.. WArERBURY-Ihadt the blossoms from an acre
OF potatoes pinched of. Ii greatly increased the
yield, and quality, and prevented the rot.
A LARGE CALF.
Mr. f. SMITH, Agent Of the State Society Tor pre-
paring Hamilton square for the Far, sa,d that ne
lately saw a calf at the farm of Wm. Brush, 3rssn-
wicb, n. Y, months old that weighed oSO lbs,
girted feet II inches, and measured feet on the
back, from horns to rump.
FLOWING CLAY SOILS.
Prof. MAPS made the following exceedingly in-
teresfng remarks: Although clayey soils are more
reteniive OF manures than any other, from the power
Of slumna 20 retain ammonia, and not as Is some
imss supposed from the impervous character Of clay
IN passing water freely stiil these soils, from their
peculiarly Of textnre present difficulties for general
USE and in the fall blowing il should be performed