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The number IN attendance varcs from 50 10 - /;
many coming from great distance. The pro-
ceedngs are of q highly interesting nature 10 Far
mers. The following is sketch OF one Of the
late meetings:


Mr.. MeigS read an extract from London
paper of March Cd, 1914, relative to Guano. A
vessel arrived at Liverpool from Africa laden
with 400 tons OF Guano, and bringing accounts
that many vessels were loaded, and loading with
it for England.


WASTE LAND on LONG ISLAND.


Mr.. Walsh, Of Lansingburg, called the at
tention of the Club to the improvement of the
WASTE LAND ON LONG ISLAND, some 80 or 10 miles
from the City. AT South Oyster Bay, at Jerusa-
lem South, and at Islip large tracts Of Land are
lying proftless. Forest trees would aid in i'm
proving this soil, and would themselves prove
profitable On many points of land the basket
willow would enrich the soil but this plant re-
found servicable in the same way, and mus
tard seed sowed and ploughed under at the proper
time would much improve this now worthless
soil. On suitable land the osier willow would
prove profitable. Maddcr at this time commands
90 cents per h., and wheelbarrow load of the
Hamburger willow will produce iiom 500 to S25
worth of twigs, the demand for which is good,
and on the increase. We have small importa-
tions of demiiohns We make the glass and
import the willow, and our own industry completes
the rest.


AMERICAN APPLES.


Our apples are highly priced in Europe-large
quantities are exported had a friend IN Eng
land in 1912, who having desire to eat an ap-
pie, called at fruit stand, and was shown some
Indifferent apples. He asked if there were no
better to be obtained go yes replied the lruiterer,
'we have American Apples They were pro-
duced at Cd sterling each, and proved excellent.
NY friend replied good enough for America.


FOREST TREES.


There is no branch of Agriculture Of deeper
interest 10 the Country than the cultivation Of
useful Forest Trees, and yet as the profits are not
immediate, there is unfortunately no branch
more neglected. Mr.. Walsh suggested the pro-
priety of premium of 500 to be paid at the
end of five years for the best nursery of not less
than 30 acres of such young trees as would be
useful in ship building and the arts.


THE WILLOW AND TIE ALANTHUs.
Col. Edpard Clark, Of Brooklyn-The oser
willow was introduced into this State by Cover
neur Morris, and it now extends along the banks
of the Bronxr river, nearly to Harlem river. The
culture of them is peculiar The first growth oil
three or four years must be cut down, when new
shoots of 6, S or 10 feet spring up. They have
been worked into baskets.


Mr.. Broun.-Our country abounds in willows.
We have one hundred varieties. Some OF them
as good as the osiers of Europe. Almost every
Europcan plant and tree is cqualled here. A
thousand tons Of osiers of the height OF or lo
feet NAV be found in the marshes at tho L alls
of Niagara.


Mr.. Carter.-Wilows require damp earth and
they must be cut every season.


Mr. Bropn.-Thc unoccupied lands OF Long
Island near River Head are in some parts cover
ed with scrub oak these lands are scarcely worth
more than from 81 to So per acre. If the Allan.
thus were planted on that land It's leaves would
gradually restore fertility. Its very useful and
Ornamental tree we have it in some OF our streets
In ten wears it would grow one foot IN dame
ter. In twenty years it would drop hall ton
of lis foliage. In forty years in Europe 1t attans
three feet diameter. 1t is originally from North
crn India. Its wood resembles mahogany; Is
equal in lustrc when polished and in color Also
The wild lands of Long Island might be cover
ed with il. 1t grows On any dry soil. Its flower
has not pleasant odor


Mr.. Tallmaage remarked that the willow'wares
of France and Germany were OF great value
The osier he said, must be cut down every
| year.


Col. Clark said there are two knds-onc whose
seeds drop into the water, and reaching the oank
there grow. Farmers preserve them as good bank
preserrers There are ample accommodations
for them at Roundout, Esopus, and elsewhere.


Mr.. Carter-We receive osier hampers with
potatoes These hampers, when not dry, Will
grow as cuttings, so that we may not only eai
the potatoes but plant the basket'


HENRY D. GRovE-sAxoN SHEEP.
Mr.. WALSH presented report relative to the
late Henry D. Grove, from which 1t appears
that Mr.. Grove was born in Brunswick, Ger-
many, in 1902; that in 1924 he brought over
from Germany the first flock of that celebrated
stock of sheep, known as the pure ClectoTdI
Sazon," ever exposed for sale IN ths county
These were sold at public auction at Brooklne,
near Boston, and were scattered over various
parts of the country but mostly in the New-Eng-
land States and New.York. 1t was while rcsid-
ing at Broohline, attending to the sale Of these
sheep, that Mr. Grove, though then but 22 years
of age. contributed to the Ne,c- England Farmer
most valuable article on Sheep llusbandry


Each of the two succeeding years he made
voyages to this country in the same connection,
and returned to Europe. In June, 1897, he land
ed in New York, with flock of lO5 sheep, Sc
ected from the purest Saxon blood, to which ne
added by importation, the next year, sixty yearl-
/ inrs and ten lambs, from which have sprung hls
present valuable pure bloodtd tocks. one oi which
is nov located at the town of Hoosick, in this
State. and the other at Medina, Ohio. From
these hocks there has been disseminated an I'M.
proved fncness Of wool over great extent OF
our country, while Mr.. Grove, by his example
has improved our farmers in sheep husoanory.
Mr.. Grove was also an excellent general farmer
and scientific agriculturist


The Presideni-The stated subjects now IN
order are the


GRAPE VINE AND GoosEBERRY.