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272 H/5/1891 -4-
Very much be some and not at all by
others

7 What is the best way to train tomatoes
Some like to stake and tie them up
but a majority like best to mulch
with straw and let them grow
their own way.

8 How best cure gapes in chickens?
Some are successful in taking the
worms from the wind pipe with
a horse hair noose. Others put
Kerosene in their drinking water
A member tried turpentine. Some
members who use soft food have
no gapes - others who use only hard
food have no gapes

9 Who has heard of the coming fruit
the Buffalo berry? Nothing known about it

10 What do with lilacs bushes which have
grown scraggy? Cut back to about 3 feet.

11 What is the best fertilizer for sweet
potatoes? On rich soil nothing is needed.
On stiff soil wood pile earth to
lighten the soil.

12 A new asparagus bed is becoming
weedy, how treat it? Considered better
to hoe this year than to apply salt.

13 Do the members prefer planting
Lima beans in a square patch or
in long rows? Divided opinion

A disease among hens which
cause them to have fits, was

272 H/5/1891 -4-
Very much be some and not at all by
others

7 What is the best way to train tomatoes
Some like to stake and tie them up
but a majority like best to mulch
with straw and let them grow
their own way.

8 How best cure gapes in chickens?
Some are successful in taking the
worms from the wind pipe with
a horse hair noose. Others put
Kerosene in their drinking water
A member tried turpentine. Some
members who use soft food have
no gapes - others who use only hard
food have no gapes

9 Who has heard of the coming fruit
the Buffalo berry? Nothing known about it

10 What do with lilacs bushes which have
grown scraggy? Cut back to about 3 feet.

11 What is the best fertilizer for sweet
potatoes? On rich soil nothing is needed.
On stiff soil wood pile earth to
lighten the soil.

12 A new asparagus bed is becoming
weedy, how treat it? Considered better
to hoe this year than to apply salt.

13 Do the members prefer planting
Lima beans in a square patch or
in long rows? Divided opinion

A disease among hens which
cause them to have fits, was