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article, which gave hope that sometime in the
dim future the consumers might equal the
producers in numbers and farmers get better prices
2^nd reader Sally Janney, read "Spraying for
Insects" showing the good effects of tobaccco
water, soap suds &c but that a strong
stream of pure water was best of all, for
all kinds of insects and even English Sparrows.
She also read an article on potting
lilies for winter blooming, recommending
June as none too early, in fact, the best month
Anna Gilpin read of the Flower Mission.

The Secretary read from "Farm & Home" of the
present fashion of using the bow of ribbon
for decorating all sorts of incongruous things,
and last and best a letter to the Society
Ellen Farguhar (from Italy) giving some horticultural
information from foreign parts and
containing a message from M. M. Miller
in which we are promised in the near
future that the "desert" of Alloway shall
blossom as the Rose"!

The readers for next meeting are Annie
Brooke Kirk and Alice T. Stabler

Questions
1 How get rid of chickweed? Burn it
It should not be thrown on the compost
heap, as the seeds will ripen and it
will grow wherever the compost is used

2 What use for destroying striped bug
Try dusting with air slacked lime in which
a little kerosene has been mixed.

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article, which gave hope that sometime in the
dim future the consumers might equal the
producers in numbers and farmers get better prices
2^nd reader Sally Janney, read "Spraying for
Insects" showing the good effects of tobaccco
water, soap suds &c but that a strong
stream of pure water was best of all, for
all kinds of insects and even English Sparrows.
She also read an article on potting
lilies for winter blooming, recommending
June as none too early, in fact, the best month
Anna Gilpin read of the Flower Mission.

The Secretary read from "Farm & Home" of the
present fashion of using the bow of ribbon
for decorating all sorts of incongruous things,
and last and best a letter to the Society
Ellen Farguhar (from Italy) giving some horticultural
information from foreign parts and
containing a message from M. M. Miller
in which we are promised in the near
future that the "desert" of Alloway shall
blossom as the Rose"!

The readers for next meeting are Annie
Brooke Kirk and Alice T. Stabler

Questions
1 How get rid of chickweed? Burn it
It should not be thrown on the compost
heap, as the seeds will ripen and it
will grow wherever the compost is used

2 What use for destroying striped bug
Try dusting with air slacked lime in which
a little kerosene has been mixed.