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clean a new tea kettle. The most approved remedy
was to boil grease in it. Sarah T. Miller asked
whether they should build a Spring house at some
distance from their dwelling, the answers were
a little peculiar & mostly discouraging to the enterprise
under the circumstance, but the general opinion
seemed to be in favor of a Spring house for
everybody during the middle of summer if they desired
good butter and cream.

Will cream make more butter by raising the
temperature from 50^o to 60^o ?
Thought to increase the quantity at the expense
of quality.

There was no experience in salting strawberry
beds to kill grubworms, fears being expressed
about the plants.

How many young chickens in the Home Interest? 470
It was generally agreed that some were more
contrary this year than common.

How to clean a new churn? Put hay and buttermilk
in it.

Would you plant currant and raspberrys in a
garden? Yes, at one side.

Is it necessary to take all the grass from around
apple trees 8 or 10 years old? Not thought so.

B.H. Miller & H.E. Hartshorne were asked to read at
Tanglewood May 24^th
Asa M. Stabler sec. pro tem