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culture. Mr. Benjamin told a story of a lady in Louisiana who 

 cleared seventy -five dollars on one acre of cucumbers, also gave 

 some valuable information of horticultural work in that state. 

 The question was then asked, which kind of strawberries Mrs. 

 Kennedy considered the most productive. Answer, Crescent 

 and Charles Downing. Mr. Cutler and Mrs. Bonniwell thought 

 cornstalks and leaves the best mulching. Quite a discussion 

 then took place concerning raspberry culture. 



Moved that a vote of thanks be tendered Mrs. Kennedy for her 

 paper, also that a copy be furnished for publication and a copy 

 sent to the State Horticultural Society, also a vote of thanks to 

 Mr. Stubbs for his paper. 



The election of officers then took place, as follows: 



President — M. Cutler. 



Vice President — M. T. Eidout. 



■Secretary — Mrs. A. A. Kennedy. 



Treasurer — Mrs. Anna Bonniwell. 



EVENING SESSION. 



Meeting called to order by the president, who read his annual 

 •address. Mr. Eidout asked for information concerning the cul- 

 ture of strawberries. The president gave his ideas of their cul- 

 tivation. Mr. Eidout offered as an apology for not writing an 

 essay as requested, lack of time. He gave us about two minutes' 

 talk on agriculture. Said he thought if our fairs could be con- 

 ducted on a different plan they would be of more value to the 

 farmers. For instance, if there could be less horse racing and 

 :gambling and less money expended for these purposes and larger 

 premiums offered for farm products, the farmers would take 

 more interest in trying to make them a success; also said he 

 thought there ought to be an experimental farm established in 

 every county, and premiums offered, and then farmers would 

 take some interest in raising fruit. He produced some fine 

 ispecimens of seedling potatoes from the Beauty of Heb- 

 ron, which he raised at the rate of six hundred and 

 seventy-two bushels per acre. Also some Golden Ball 

 millet that was pronounced by those present to be far su- 

 perior to anything of the kind yet introduced. Mr. Cutler ex- 

 liibited a can of blackberries, that carried us away back to the 

 mountains of the East, where in our childhood we were wont to 

 pick the delicious fruit. Mrs. Bonniwell exhibited a can of red 



