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Edgewood 84
Sharon 29
Riverside 40
Longwood 100
Hermon 114

860 to 733 last May.

All the readers for this meeting were
present and gave us articles of interest.
Roger Farquhar read an article on the vitality
of old and new seeds giving the different
ages at which they will germinate as tested
at the New York experimental station. Deborah
Brooke read an article on the cultivation celery,
Cornelia Bentley one on the cultivation
and merits of the sunflower and the uses
of its products. R. B. Farquhar also read an
article denouncing as humbugs certain
parties who advertize a substance for burning
stumps. Readers for next meeting
Mary M. Stabler Mary E Gilpin and Charles
A. Iddings.

The minutes of last meeting were
read and some omissions supplied.

The proposal to change the time of
our meetings from the first to the last
Tuesday in the month was discussed
and the vote taken, which resulted in
making the change, 14 for to 10 against
it. It was then proposed to have the first
meeting in March instead of April and
put to vote and carried. This change
will give us one more meeting than