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Avalon

May 7^th 1912

A goodly numer of members and
guests assembled at this lovely home.
First reader Catherine Janney had not
been notified of her appointment to
read so was excused till next meeting,

She told of the efforts of her friends
in Bermuda to get water by digging or
boring Artesian wells. She also said that
the people of Bermunda think they have
a remedy for the blight of their lillies. SOme
thing was gone from the soil by restoring it
they are now very flourishing.
2^nd Frank Hallowell read from the Rural
N. Yorkers of a food for cattle and poultry
much liked by the Western Washington
Experiment Station "Cow Kale" or 1000 headed
Kale and Marrow cabbage. They are said
to be greatly relished by cattle, sheep,
hogs and poultry. They are not fit for
Silo but must be fed green and will
stand a temperature of 10 degrees and
yield 30 to 40 tons per acre.
Volunteer by E.S. Iddings Nature's poison
labels," teaching that all berries having
roughness of the blossom end gooseberries,
whortleberries are not poison while
those which are smooth like nightshade
Rhus Toxicodendron are poisonous. Hanna
Stabler reminded us that our botanies
taught that all plants with square stems