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Alloway
June 4th 1907

The meeting opened near the proper
hour. The minutes were read and accepted
Readers. 1st Isabel Miller by Dorothy Brooke
read of the year 1816, "No summer that year"
Ice and snow in June, July and August
crops were killed.

2nd Emily Massey read that tobacco dust was
a good application for plants infested with
striped bugs, also a short poem and a recipe
for strawberry preserves.

Volunteer, Dr. Kirk gave incidents of the
year 1816 which corroborated the account
of the weather of that year, read by Dorothy
Brooke, and stating that corn had
to be replanted three times, and sold the next
winter at $4.00 per bushel. He also gave the
origin of the word "Cotton-gin" a contraction
of cotton-engine, and the derivation of "turbine"
from "tornado".

Forethought gave a column of items from
the Farm Journal of things to do in June
Use the mole trap: plant late cabbage in
good soil: Stir the soil as soon as possible
after every rain: plant lettuce and beets
Keep the Cultivator teeth and hoes bright
and sharp. Keep tomato vines off of the ground
by use of straw, stakes, brush or trellis.

Reader on poultry, Janet Miller read an
original article, "A lay sermon on poultry
matters" a plea for cleanliness and order
in the poultry yard, a safeguard against
vermin. Leave no rubbish to harbor, rats, minks