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would mulch strawberries and
fix roads to ice ponds

Questions. Mr Fussell learns from Dr.
Farquhar, Edward P. Thomas, Fred Stabler
Ben Miller Will Moore and others that
sodding may be done now if not frozen.

The sod should be at least 2½ inches
thick and well tamped in its new position.
Some prefer doing the work later
in the Spring. Dr. Brooke says Fred
struck the key note when he advised
cutting the sod thick, and also remarked
that in town they have a better
chance for success with sod
because of unlimited water supply.
Mrs. Haviland would have the work
done in early Spring and she employs
a boy and board to drive up and
drive down the sod. It is safe to record
that both Mrs. Haviland and the
boy have a weary feeling by night.

-Emma Boud asks why their butter
wont come? Thirty years ago the "H. I."
was a professor at butter making what
one didn't know his wife or brother did.
To day these wisest members declare they
know nothing. And yet we gleam a
few ideas from numerous answers-
Ben Miller says raise the temperature of
the cream to 68 or 70 in winter. Dr. Brooke
says Ben is about right, but the number
of cows in the herd has something to
do with it. Dr. Tatum says if the milk
cream from several cows is used