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11 Is it safe to grease turkies before a rain?
Does not seem to hurt them

12 How many times should live geese be
picked during a summer? Not more than two

The Annual Exhibition was omitted
this year by a vote of twenty to six.

After observing with interest the
beautifully kept garden, and enjoying to
the full the social feature of the meeting
the Society adjourned to meet next at
Rockland
Mary Magruder Sec. Pro. Tem

Rock Spring
Aug 6^th 1889 Temp 79^o
We assembled at the usual hour. In the
absence of our President, who had gone on
a voyage across the Atlantic, John Bentley
presided satifactorily. Our absent members
were Longwood, White Hall, Fair Hill & Avalon
Our guests Eliza and Elisha Miller Mr & Mrs
Muncaster Mrs. Osborn, Gene Fawcett, Roger
and Lo[n?] Brooke and daughter, Miss Lucas
Mrs. Robert Abat, Nettie Moore, Alice Needles
Gertrude Miller & George Miller

The specimens were very good; from
Brooke Grove; tomatoes, corn, potatoes, Lima
beans, celery plants, squash, and flowers
Riverside summer squash, dwarf Lima beans