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Fair Hill, flowers
Rockland, Flowers, egg-plant, sweet potatoes
ca carrots parsnips and corn
Falling Green, cabbage, sweet potatoes, beans
cymblings, corn and beets.
Riverton, Flowers, pears, beans, squash & celery

After reading a short list of exhibits
the questions were asked and answered
as follows.

Questions
1^st What is the best time to plant raspberries? November

2^nd Has any one tried keeeping sweet potatoes
in the cellar? Not successful unless there
is a furnace

3^rd Should sweet potatoes be left in the
ground after the tops are off? Leave
until just before the ground freezes.

4^th Do Lima beans grown in the opposite
way in the Southern Hemisphere from
what they do here? Alban G. Thomas
and wife were appointed a committee
to investigate

5^th What is the best way to protect
tomato vines from frost in the garden?
Cover, gradually, with straw and sweet corn

6^th Are the members much troubled