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to arrive in New England two weeks later in
a fierce snow storm, mer. down to 4^°. Water
froze in her room. Helen and Fred Thomas
left the North where the ponds were frozen
and ground covered with snow to find at
home a day or two later, the mercury at 90^°.

Sarah Farquhar on Poultry read of
various methods of preserving eggs. It was
remarked that the price of eggs keeps up
tho so many more are produced then some
years ago. John Bentley thinks the reason
maybe because of better facility for transporting
them and also the many families
doing light housekeeping.

Exhibits

Were abundant and of good
quality. Roses numerous and fine, vegetables
well advanced did not show the
effects of dry weather. New potatoes,
cherries and strawberries were fine.

Questions
{1}What do with asparagus now?
Cultivate all thro the Summer. It would
be well to take up the little seedlings and
set in a bed to themselves, to be set out of
a new bed next Spring.
{2}When stop cutting asparagus? When peas come.
{3}Are the large varieties of asparagus as good
as the old varieties? A difference of opinion.
What causes sweetpeas to blight? We do not
know. One member killed his with fertilizer.
Grape vines have been injured by a small dark
blue beetle. The remedy is to spray early.