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Q. How to raise egg plants?
A. Plant in rich soil and enrich frequently with much.
Q. When should soup beans be planted?
A. As soon as there is no danger of frost.
Q. Should hot bed covers work on hinges?
A. No they should slide.
Q. How can washing in gardesn be prevented?
A. By having open ditches.
Q. Is it too late to take up asparagus?
A. Yes.
Q. Is it too late to plant asparagus seed?
A. They will not come up before next spring
Q. If one person should furnish another with turkey eggs, what proportion of the turkeys raised should the latter person keep?
A. Great difference of opinion the vote being as follows 1/2, 1/20, 1/20, 1/4, 1/4, 1/3, 1/3, 1, 0
Q. The best way to raise turkeys?
A. Keep in coops. Feed on corn or wheat bread, curds mixed with onion tops. Boiled dumplings.
Q. Should tomato plants be put in deeply?
A. Yes.
Q. How may [gasses] be prevented or cured?
A. 1. Mix one third sand with [?] meal. 2. one tablespoonful of sulpher to a quart of meal given twice a week. 3. Keep out of grass. 4. Feed regularly. 5. Smoke with tobacco. 6. Give tar water. 7. Assafretida.

Frances Stabler had 100 chickens. M.B. Hall 60. S.B. Farquhar 66