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H/5/1897 -2-

Hermon 120 chickens
Knowlton 90 chickens
Longwood 110 chickens 6 Turkey 5 ducks
Riverton 40 chickens
Rockland 75 chickens
Rock Spring 100 chickens 7 goslings 25 ducks
Tanglewood 100 chickens
Woodburn 106 chickens 10 goslings 42 ducks

The total was 1928 chickens 6
Turkeys, 18 goslings and 77 ducks. for
the fifteen families reporting.
Norwood and Mt Welcome were not represented
at the meeting and one report
had been forgotten

1^st Reader, Mary E. Gilpin, contributed a
clipping on celery, which recommended
covering the seed bed with old carpets
and after the plants appeared,
raising this protection upon sticks placed
between the rows which were made
10 inches apart. By this method less
watering was required and a hard
crust did not form over the seed
and around the tender seedling
The 2^nd reading was from John
C. Bentley upon feeding young
chickens. The use of rolled oats