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Glendare 6-23-1912 568
The 568th meeting of the
e.club was held at Malcolm Far
quhars June 23rd 1912. C.J.
Gilpin, G.A. Wilson, Ar Stabler
and Wm Canby were absent. The
guests were: J.W. Jones, C.J. Kirk
H.H. Miller, R Cauby, J.C. Bentley
H.H. Miller, F.M. Hallowell and
Wm. J. Thomas.

Coming in from the road
we all saw that our host was in
the midst of harvesting a slendid
crop of alsyke, Nearly all the modern
appliances (Mowing machine
tedder, sidedelivery rake & hayloader)
for the rapid handling of the crop were to be seen in the field. We
may always count on seeing a fine
flock of sheep in the little pasture
field below Rock Spring. The lambs
were in elegant shape, some of
which were ready for market. One
lamb particularly was ready for home
consumption that night. Our host
told us that his sheep were shear
ed by hand this year and that
one man did ninety in two days.
All things considered our host prefers
good hand shearing to that done by power clippers. We found the
hogs in good condition as usual.
One sow with seven or eight [O.D.C.?]
pigs was much admired. The part
of the garden that had not been
washed away by a tremendous rain
looked well and furnished some delicious new potatoes for our supper.
An open air fattening pen for roosters
was in the meadow below the house
and nearby was a very human
looking scarcrow keeping guard