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Poultry
Cloverlea 78 chickens 10 ducks
Brooke Grove 40 chickens ducks 3 goslings
Falling Green 225 chickens 41 turkies goslings
Rock Spring 80 chickens 9 goslings
Rockland (about) 55 chickens
Longwood 140 chickens 12 ducks
Riverside 50 chickens
Fair Hill 140 chickens 18 turkies 21 ducks
Alloway 85 chickens
Norwood 60 chickens
Hermon 260 chickens

Questons
1 How cut asparagus at the ground or
below the surface? Some consider it best
to cut at the surface when 6 inches high
and it is tender and does not have to be
peeled, but most of the members like
the eleven obstinate men who hung the
jury, continue to cut below the surface
Agnest told of the delicious asparagus
she ate in Germany. The bed was
deeply covered with sand, and where
the sand looked slightly stirred, the
owner would plunge a knife with a
hooked blade down and cut the stalk,
it being intirely out of sight until brought
up by the knife.

2 Where sow cabbage seed for late plants?
Middle to last of May

3 Has any one had trouble with fungus,
growth in hot-beds? Yes several. cure unknown