22 TRANSACTIONS OF THE ILLINOIS 



Amount brought forward ^ 8752.31 



Jan. 14, 1888— C. B. Rockwell 325 41.50 ' 



Feb. 13, 1888— Phil. Dallam 354 21 . 75 



Feb. 16, 1888— Miss Bessie Nash 352 40 . 30 



Feb. 20, 1888— J. W. Franks & Sons 353 500.00 



Feb. 22, 1888— C. N. Dennis 355 7 .65 



Feb. 27, 1888— A. C. Hammond 357 71 .30 



Feb. 28, 1888— J. W. Franks & Sons 356 316 . 74 



Mch. 5, 1888— L. Woodward — 50.00 



Mch. 22, 1888— A. C. Hammond 2 18.00 



Apl. 14, 1«88— Phil. Dallam 1 11.75 



June 17, 1888— Frank Heinl 6 50.00 



June 18, 1888— Phil. Dallam 3 4.45 



June 25, 1888— A. C. Hammond 4 150.00 



Sept. 13, 1888— S. F. Conner 5 50.00—12,085.75 



Balance $696.39 



Respectfully submitted, 



H. K. VICKROY, Treasurer. 



Mr. Riehl — I move that the reports of the Secretary and 

 Treasurer be referred to the Executive Board. Motion adopted. 



FARMERS' KITCHEN GARDEN. 



BY G. W. M CLEUR, CHAMPAIGN. 



It is an old and familiar saying that "distance lends enchant- 

 ment to view," and it may be for this reason that the work of taking 

 care of a kitchen garden does not seem invested with the same 

 terrors that it must have had to me when I was not big enough to 

 plow, but was big enough to pull out weeds in the garden where they 

 were, to the best of my knowledge and belief, ten thousand weeds to 

 one onion or radish or beet. One couldn't use a hoe because the 

 rows were planted too close together and the plants were too close 

 together in the row. I didn't want to pull out any plants because 

 they were so little, that if one had been pulled out, the rest would 

 have been lost. And there was the first mistake we made. The 

 rows of vegetables were planted too close together and the seed was 

 planted too thickly. It would have been better if the rows of car- 

 rots had been eighteen inches or two feet apart, instead of eight or 

 ten inches, and if there had been two good plants in twelve inches, 

 than twelve poor plants in two inches of row. 



Weeds will grow in the garden as well as anywhere else. We 

 used to leave the weeds because the other things were so small and 

 there was danger of pulling out other things besides weeds. When 



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