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Mr. A. S. Fuller — Very few persons are successful in canning corn, 

 as it requires boiling several hours and must be put into strong tin 

 cans and hermetically sealed. Ordinary glass jars will not answer. 



Dr. Isaac P. Trimble — It is, I think, a mistake to say that sweet 

 corn should be boiled several hours. Twenty minutes would be 

 enough ; but I do not believe in the canned corn. I never approved 

 of its taste or smell. 



The Chairman — It is very hard work to boil sweet corn for can- 

 ning so as to prevent fermentation. I have tried it in all ways, and 

 kept it on a shelf in a dry, cool place, but in two or three months 

 away it would go, bursting off the tops. I succeeded well with some 

 dried. 



Mr. R. J. Dodge — My experience is the same. Corn is the hardest 

 vegetable to keep, and the only way to keep it is by drying. 



Mr. F. D. Curtis — My wife, who succeeds in making corn a very 

 palatable dish for us in winter, cooks it, not too much, but done ; 

 cuts it from the cob and dries in an old-fashioned brick oven made 

 only moderately warm. There are many disadvantages in drying 

 this or any other vegetable in the sun. A partial decomposition is 

 apt to take place, and there is the nuisance of flies and dust. 



Dr. Isaac P. Trimble — I have heard the Alden process highly com- 

 mended. 



Prof. Henry E. Colton — The other day, at a friend's table, I was 

 induced to taste some corn which proved to be remarkably true to 

 nature and palatable. I learned that it was not canned, but prepared 

 by this process of evaporation to which Dr. T. alludes. 



Cultivating Huckleberries. 



Mr. J. P. Lunan, Madison, O., asked if the Club would be so kind 

 as to state whether the huckleberry will succeed under cultivation ; also 

 if it was a profitable crop to cultivate. 



Mr. A. S. Fuller — There have bden very few experiments made in 

 cultivating the huckleberry, but I do not know of any good reason 

 why it should not be cultivated with profit. I hope those who feel 

 interested in the subject will make experiments with the different 

 species and report the results. 



Mr. D. B. Bruen — They grow best in the shade. 



Yellows in Peach Trees. 



Mr. J. A. Donaldson, St. Joseph, Mich. — "Will Mr. Fuller please 

 state whether his opinion " that he can make a peach tree flourish 



