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to have it so". Volunteer, Dr. Kirk an article
on the soap tree, It grows fifty feet high
bears nuts which yield an oil as good
as olive oil, soap from the hulls, also hair
wash, dentrifice, etc. and the wood is valuable
for making furniture. A variety has been
grown in Florida.

Forethought

A cordial greeting to all and congratulations
that we have had no loss in our
membership. The usual planting of early
peas, carrots, parsnips, etc. having been made we
should now attend to the trimming of trees and
vines, working around pie-plant raspberries
currant bushes etc. and clean up all corners
where the plow cannot go: spade flower beds
and if there are any rose bushes or other shrubs
to be moved, do it right away: set out a
few fruit trees each year. It is too early
to plant flower seeds in the open ground,
but some can be started in hot-bed, frames
or boxes. Put in cuttings of geraniums Begonias
&c. James Stabler of Spring Garden
will not have as many Lima beans as
usual, but what he can spare, he will send
to the May meeting

Forethought, advice was excellent except
that she says "we must work day after day
early and late, and then we wont get thro"
Poultry report shows an increas of 153 chicks
over the report of the corresponding month last year
Janet Miller read "On the complications in
raising poultry" Margaret Magruder told of a
puppy on their place which has adopted a
a chicken: he scratches for it and allows it to