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4)

broom corn.

Had any one lost any poultry
from eating locusts? Richard
Iddings had seen one hen
swallow 62 with no bad effects
but in Howard Co. some one lost
1500 young chickens from eating
them.

Lena Stabler gave the tidbits of
several books on gardening & wild
flowers & thought
an appropriate name for this
side of Edgewood.

No one seemed to know what
was puncturing the stems
of rhubarb.

Helen Farquhar asked if any
one had tried putting tin
cans on top of lima bean poles
into which the beetles were said to
crawl & so far no one had.

The blight on the fruit trees a
round Ashton is caused by cedar
rust.

The best way to plant peas is
tp sow them along in the row,
but beans should not be sown
too close together.