New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-05-10
AMERICAN INSTITUTE FARMERS CLUB.

TUESDAY, May 6.--Mr President PELL in the chair.
Judge MICS, the Secretary, read some interesting
items from Rereu Hortico'e; among Others were the
following:
The angola Goat IN Algeria.-Great efforts have
been made to introduce all sorts of valuable animals
into the French possessions in Africa. The success
attending the introduction OF the pure blood Angola
goat is highly satisfactory. The flock consists of
one buck and twelve ewes, all very healthy, and, with
the exception of the buck, all running at large with
the Maltese and other goats and eating every descrp
tion Of green food either grass leaves ard to ap
pearance retaining their hardness and more easy to
keep than goats of other breeds Great care is neces
sary TO preserve their long, white, silky fleece IN its
purity. Each one is shut up at night in c.eant-
tered STALL but in their day rambes some OF the locks
of the fleece get tangled and some pulled out, and
species of caterpillar gets in the fleece and tangles 1t
reproduces rapidly and some Of the crosses upon other
breeds give avery satisfactory result.
Guernsey Parfridges-It is stated that this kind Of
partrdees have been domesticated in France TO
be as tame as common farm.yard fowls. Turnfort
mentions domesticated partridges in Greece.
Bees from Jamaica were exhibited at the Crystal
Palace, Paris, under the name Of "bloached bees"
What are they,li 1t is supposed that they may be
"stingless bees"
SiR made by worms fed in China upon oak leaves
wss exhibited at the Palace. IL would be important
70 know what sort Of oak, and whether the sk-worms
Strngless Peas, which are eaten pods and all while
young and tender, much esteemed in France. The
beat variety comes from Turkey; the pods are very
white, tender and nutritious.
Another W,nd.MR.wH. w. Brown of Pennsylvs-
mia exhibited to the Club with explanations, model
Of Lempckes patent windmill. This is another con-
trysnce to regulate the sails by the pressure of the
wind, as TO run slower as the wind blows faster
The arrangement Is by attaching weighted levers to
the extremity Of the sails that spread out by centr-
fuga force the speed increases, and turn the sails
edge 10 the wind Very effec.ual except when most
Deeded-in sudden squalls.
Farm Gardens.-1he subject continued from the
Nat meeting was the necessity and advantage Of gar
dens 10 farmers, and the errors usually committed; of
making them within small Enclosures where all the work
must be done by the spade.
SoLoS BoBIHsoS advocated planting everything in
long rows go that nearly all the labor Of cultivation
can be done by the horse hoe, and the persons who
cannot find time fag spade cultivation will not neglect,
ss they DOW do this valuable aid TO family economy
and health the farm garden. What is most needed
is for Us TO endeavor by constant relteration OF
the subject 10 induce farmers to cultivate ana eat
more garden vegetables. We mutt keep taking OF
what II s best raise and how to plant and cow, and
tend and make produce in the easiest manner.
Judge MHIos-I fully coincide with Mr.. Robinson
in the opinion that if farmers could be induced to
tables in long lows, so that all the hard work would
DE Gone by horses there would be no lack Of garden
vegetables. He then drew picture of a farmers
Hsrden-baf dozen punches OF holyhocks-two or
fhree punches Of widowed gooseberry bushes-a row
81 scaggy currants along the ences little spinding
AsPsieegs IN one corner-some roots of pie-pant in
sAI,h so hard 1t could not grow-here and there a
.vsooasn' wih a hundred times many bugs a. flow
"a. hwo rows u peas, yellow sickly, and clicked
and SonrSs sta pumpkins, MELONS, cacuubcrs
there suniiower--and here, there. everywhere,
weeds, weeds, weeds Such are farm-gardens as they
are too onep seen in all directions eN' ~ WY
j. PAYsE LOWE. have been snend;n, a. yy;,,.r
in Canada West ecDg upon agrcuI,nrs end ,tansh
st first her Malestys subjects were Little suspcio.
of my being Yankee, aud big humbn, sS so,'
body that had been ecturing there about TerrecnI
tme," my lectures were Wei received In All ms ~
fercouee with the people, noticed great war, ' os
good gardens. Nowhere in the country did see such
mayke ct garden as some this city, that ,sas
n,l;ey x2b-for instance, on Professor Mapess farm
Ehsre 40 acres are cultivated in garden vegetables