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Spraying orchards and cultivating for
moisture or mulch heavily

Forethought, was excellent. Plant cucumbers
for pickles, make two more plantings
of Sweet corn. Set out late cabbage
middle to last of month and use Nitrate
of Soda; sow turnips; Set out celery,
thin out suckers of blackberries;
support heavily laden branches of pears
In flower garden sow perennials, begin
preparing plants for winter put in cuttings
of roses either in boxes of earth, kept
moist or in the ground, covered with
bottomless pint jars and leave jars
over them until spring. Janet Miller
read on poultry, a theory that earth
worms caused gapes. Various experiments
had been tried and the results
seem to show that it might be
a fact: the members who keep their
chickens off the ground until six
or eight weeks old, do not have
many cases of gapes.

A Member read of some of the
very large trees of Maryland, one
110 feet high.