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there. We must raise good crops to be able to use much commercial 

 fertilizer. I would plow rye under just when it came into bloom. 



Mr. Morrill: I have plowed rye under when the ground was dry, and, 

 no rain following, it proved a detriment. 



Mr. Webster: I have faith in rye as a fertilizer. Mr. Merry read a 

 paper before the Baldhead club, showing that rye was beneficial by the 

 roots holding the nitrogen. 



Mr. Morrill: I suggest sowing bone meal in August, and sowing the 

 rye on that and plowing the rye under. 



G. F. Comings: Bone meal is a slow fertilizer. I do not think we can 

 expect much result the first season. It is a good fertilizer for pears and 

 grapes. I do not think you will see much effect on a pear tree, from bone 

 meal, the first year. I have used special fertilizers with good results the 

 first year, and have used wood ashes a good deal. 



Orin Brown : I have had some experience with rye; have plowed rye 

 under for three seasons, just when in head, and planted tomatoes, with 

 good results. Some of the rye, when plowed under, was as high as a 

 horse's back. I have followed rye with buckwheat and potatoes; used no 

 other fertilizer on my tomatoes, but we had continuous heavy rains after 

 plowing the rye under. 



A. Brunson: Mr. Hill, near Spink's Corners, always sows rye in the 

 fall, and plows it under in the spring, in his orchard, and I never saw 

 finer apples than he raises. 



R. Morrill: Rye sowed in August or September and plowed under in 

 spring, using some bone meal, is excellent for peaches. The fertilizer 

 made at St. Joseph contains nitrogen and phosphoric acid, but no potash. 



J. H. Watson: Cotton seed meal is used in the south. 



R. Morrill: It is one of the highest forms of nitrogen. The Con- 

 necticut experiment station has published a very complete report on 

 commercial fertilizers. I have used Mapes' fertilizers and found them 

 valuable, even at $55 per ton. I have bought the ingredients and done 

 my own mixing and saved S20 per ton. The question is, who will furnish 

 the nitrogen and phosphoric acid the cheapest. 



Mr. Marth, (Lister's agent): We have been manufacturing for twenty 

 years. You should not put phosphate into contact with the seed, but it 

 should be well mixed with the soil. 



D. Boynton: Peach trees around which a little handful of sulphur had 

 been placed, are as large again as other trees of the same age. 



Mr. Morrill : Tankage and azotine work well the first year. 



D. Judson: I have used tankage, but have seen no gain from it. 



Mr. Morrill: If the land is worn this fertilizer needs potash with it. 



Mrs. H. E. Judson read a paper on Floriculture. 



The pleasures and benefits to be derived from the cultivation of a flower garden, a 

 nice lawn with trees, shrubs, and flowers well arranged, are innumerable and can hardly 

 be overestimated. In thus making our homes attractive, we not only increase their 

 money value, but indicate to the passer by that we are intelligent, refined, home-loving 

 people, who understand the forces used in molding character. To love and cultivate 

 flowers is one of the few pleasures that improve alike the mind and heart and make 

 every true lover of these beautiful creations, wiser, purer, and nobler. 



Flower gardening for women and children is conducive to good health both phys- 

 ically and morally, and to the development of that sunshiny spirit which makes the 

 gladness of every home. It should be the ambition of every woman to make her home 

 the most lovely spot on earth to her family, and no one thing will help to do this more 

 surely than the flowers. Boys and girls alike will learn to appreciate them. 



When winter comes and desolation reigns without, the good home-maker knows how 

 to keep it summer still by gathering into nook and corner part of the summer's 



