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shut into, held down by wire & brick.

8^th Has any one had their fruit trees get low
in the ground? Some have, and advised
to plant stakes and bind to them with eye
straw.

9^th How to make a good strawberry bed ? his
land well fertilized is better than old rich
ground, which is thought to bring some [suthern?]
fruit: have good plants & plant early in
Spring. To sow stiff cold land in clover, let
stand a year & plough under, will improve
it for strawberries.

10^th Is it cheaper to raise or buy strawberries?
Raise and you will have them, the other plan
doubtful.

11^th What is the best Strawberry? Don't fail to
have Wilson- Chas. Downing & Kentucky;
some like Monarch of the West.

12^th Do members propose sending their children
to boarding school, - for how long, and at what
age to start them? Let them attend the
best day school we can reach for 8 to 14 or 16,
and then as long at a first class boarding
school as their parents can afford to send them.
We think the constancy which a child attends
school, should depend on its health, & some
mothers think, that a year at home between
12 & 14 may be well used in teaching what is not