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Poultry report
Meteorologist no report
Exhibits fine. From five places came ripe
tomatoes. The Cedars Falling Green Brooke Grove
Edgewood and Tanglewood. From Highland
strawberries. Vegetables and fruits were abundant.
Flowers were very beautiful and of many
varieties including Magnolia Grandiflora, pink
roses, geraniums and many others down to
the way side orange lily, which had to
grow fouble for this occasion.
Dorothy Brooke read a letter from Mary T. Kirk
giving her father's thanks for the kindness
and attention he had received from the Society.
No new business and no bills presented.

Questions
{1}What the tallest tree in the neighborhood?
Several tall trees were named but it is not
known which is the tallest.
{2}Any prevention for the worm which gets into
the stalks of stems of cucumbers? none known
{3}Any remedy for blight in salsify? none known
Mary Magruder appointed to write to the Dep. of Ag.
for a remedy for the blight.
{4}Any preventive for the borer of Hubbard Squash?
We do not know of any.
{5}Are we making a fight against rats? C.F.
Brooke use bisulphide of copper. Put it down the
holes, and cover them; the fumes bein gheavier
than air sink and the rats die in them.
{7}Is it too late to bag grapes? Late, but "better late
than never."
{8}What two best kind of late cabbage? Flat dutch
and Savoy. Flat dutch larger but Savoy
keeps best.