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Brooke

Questions
1 Has any one the old fashion Adamson
plum? Mrs. Water has and offers
some to the members

2^nd Any good way of having the dead
twigs removed after a cyclone? Get a husband

3 Has any one had trouble with a black insect
on the underside of leaves? Yes, Mary
Gilpin's egg-plants were injured
Try air slacked lime or lime & Kerosene

4 Is it best to pull the blooms off pie plant
A difference of opinion. Robert Miller
asked to report at next meeting, what
is the custom at the Experiment Station

5 Pie plant two year old has grown very
large, is it necessary to wait another
year? No, like a turnip, when large
enough, it is old enough.

6 A straberry bed bloomed well and failed
to bear. Could it have been injured by
late weeding? It was that not. Better
plow up and plant in a new place
to get rid of possible grubs at the roots

7 Has any one tried remedies for blight on tomatoes?
Ellen Farquhar tried Bordeaux mixture
with good results. It is used at the