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and the blight do its worst. We have plenty
to eat & can soon eradicate the
offending weeds.

"So we will try to be happy
W can if we will
Find pleasure in life
To o'er balance the ill
For there is never an evil
If well understood
But what rightly managed
would turn to some good."

Questions
1 How make an ice house keep its contents
better? Deepen it six or eight feet
break up the ice, improve the drainage
by working up the bottom. Enlarge
it every way. In filling; put the ice that
breaks up around ncxt the wall, leaving
a depression for the next load.
Deepening the house was considered
the important idea

It was suggested to plant crimson clover
whenever a garden crop comes out
to improve the soil.

Anna Farquhar told in an interesting
way of the proposed reading room
for the colored people, it the lower room
of their Hall. Funiture and sympathy
would both be appericiated

2 How should an ice house needing to
be relined be managed? A concreat
wall be the best addition to make

3 What should be done with old currant
bushes that have spread out very