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with Timothy & Clover in it, or sow it in wheat?
All favor sowing the wheat.
10th. If you had a field which was very full of briers, which you wanted to put in corn next spring would you plow it now or leave it till fall?
Plow at once.

The Sec then apprized the meeting that he had been
informed by the Sec of the Sr Club, that they had apnointed
a committee of three members, & requested us to appoint
a similar committee to unite with theirs, in preparing
a series of experiments as to the cultivation of the Potatoe;
& that they had appointed one of their members to unite with
one from the Horticulural & one from our club to make
arrangements for the horticulural exhibition the coming fall
both propositions received the hearty approval of this meeting
& Chas H Brooke, A M Stabler & Thos J Lea were appointed
as the 1st named committee, and Ed P Thomas was requested
to act on behalf of the Club Jr, in preparing for the Exposition.

After doing full justice to the good things prepared
by our hostess, we adjourned to meet at the house of
Benjn H Miller on the 11th of next month.

8th mo llth 1866.
The Club met at the house of Benjn H Miller.
Present all the members except, Sam Hopkins. As guests we
had H C Hallowell, Frank Miller, C A Iddings, Dr Thomas and
F H Smith. Ed P Thomas was appointedforeman and
T J Lea Sec pro Tem. After a pleasant chat & the reading
of the minutes of last meeting, we started on our usual round
of inspection, of course the first & most natural object for us
to look after was the garden, which we found had been attended
during the growing season; the only thing we could have wished
different was the time of ripening of the Canteloupes as we
could give a better opinion of them after tasting their flavor, than

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