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4 What is the right time to bag grapes?
When they are the size of peas or even
smaller, soon as they are well formed.

5 An asparagus bed has deteriorated
When should another be planted? In the Spring

6 Should strawberries which have been planted
this spring be mulched? It would
be better to work them well

7 What do you feed the large chickens
on? Cracked corn.

8 What is the best preventive for crows
taking chickens? A dead crow is the best
and pieces of bright tin is about the
next most satisfactory

9 What should be done with a straggling
oleander? Trim into shape by degrees

10 Is is worth while to work corn which has
been worked since the rain? The majority
would work it.

11 How many plants of asparagus should
be ordered for a good bed? Two hundred
plants in two rows of fifty feet
long, eighteen inches apart in the row
and the rows six feet a part.

Robert H. Miller showed a sample
spray pump, the price of which, if
a dozen be bought, would be