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tomatoes, corn, and flowers
Falling Green beets. cucumbers, corn, tomatoes
onions from seed, very large, and flowers.
Hermon tomatoes, corn and flowers
Cloverlea, Tomatoes, corn, Lima beans and okra
Alloway, tomatoes, corn, Lima beans potatoes & flowers
Norwood, salsify and parsnips
Springdale fine tomatoes and a stalk of corn
4 ft 5 in. from seed planted 4 weeks ago to-day
Sharon flowers.

We were told that a corn cob soaked
in molasses and water and [be?]ing in the
tree would attract the curculio and save the
fruit and another person mentioned that it
used to be thought that a bag of salt hung
in the tree was a sage guard

1st reader Eliza Moore, read some articles
on the national flower, where upon we decided
to vote for it at this meeting.
The result was
Goldern Rod 23, arbutus 1, Corn 7, Columbine
1, Red Clover 1, Sunflower 1.
The Secretary was requested to send th list to
Prang who is much interested in the subject
2nd Reader Anna Farquhar read an article
on the pointed hoe, which was very amusing.

Questions
1 A member who set our 200 sweet potato
plants, had none left. Chip dirt and ashes
were used on them, wanted the cause of the loss.
Suggested that the rains may have leached the

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