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J. L. Piggot said we had better be warned in time. Our corn 

 crop is a very poor one, not better than last year. Corn will not 

 keep in bulk; it will heat and sour. But a very small portion of the 

 crop is sufficiently matured for seed, and the germ in that is weak. 

 We had better look to the seed corn at once and not wait for spring. 



Messrs. C. B. Rockwell and C. Fletcher brought up the subject 

 of green crops for fertilization, and recommended the sowing of rye 

 among the corn at the time of the last plowing. It will make a 

 good and cheap pasture for winter and spring. You can then plow 

 under the crop in season for corn. It is the cheapest kind of a 

 fertilizer. ^ 



President Dennis and G. Hilton, of Keokuk, asked for a report 

 to be made next month as to the numl)er of orchard trees growing 

 last year, and of what varieties, carefully noting the dead trees of 

 each variety. 



On motion, Messrs. Spitz, Leeper and Rockwell were elected 

 delegates to attend the Illinois State Horticultural Society at Bloom- 

 ington, December 18th to 20th. 



On motion the Society adjourned to meet in Warsaw the fourth 

 Wednesday in December. 



DECEMBER MEETING. 



The annual meeting of the Warsaw Horticultural Society was 

 held at Warsaw, December 26, 1883. 



At one o'clock the room was comfortably filled with ladies and 

 gentlemen, and the tables showed some fine specimens of excellent 

 home manufactured sorghum. 



President Dennis called for reports of committees, and the fol- 

 lowing were handed in: 



On finance, by C. C. Hoppe, Treasurer, showed cash on hand of 

 $101.35 and no indebtedness. 



C. B. Rockwell made the following report, for the year 1883, on 



