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Strawberries which have grown into a thick mass had
better be thinned out - take out in spaces a foot
wide. Some plow out the old ones leaving new
runners.

Some complaints were made of tomatoes specking &
rotting before they are ripe.
The question of how to break up hens from setting recd
many suggestions. Catching them & keeping them
up until they died was a success at one place
Keeping them up & feeding well a few days at
others. Tying by the leg to a tree was suggested but
one member offset that proposition, by telling how
she had tied one with a long string tova tree.
At night the hen got on quite a low limb to roost
& fell over it dangling by one foot all night.
thinking that the amount of blood which must be in its
small amount of brain would so daze it, that it would
be diverted from its purpose, she released it with
much wasted sympathy, as it composedly walked
straight to the henhouse & got in its nest.

Suggested to put the hen in a tight barrel with one
inch of water and allow her the privilege of sitting in
it. The most effectual remedy - to make a pot of chicken soup.

Have the people who travel the Laurel road noticed a
retrograde condition of it? Present supervisor plans not to
straighten the road. If the question could be sufficiently
agitated, a new man might get the position.

For rose bushes that have the blight try whale oil soap
applied with a brush. for dark spots on leaves Bordeaux
mixture. Do young guinea [illegible] belong to the person