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9th Mo 8th 1866

Wm W Moore being absent from the neighborhood, we
met at Asa M Stabler's when all of our merbers were present
except Wm W Moore & Wm S Bond. We had Wm Lea Jr. &
W P Miller as guests. Granville Farquhar was appointed
foreman, the minutes of last meeting were read, & we then
started upon our customary round, & first went into the garden
where things looked well especially some very "fine" (?) Cabbage
which some suggested were expected to be ready for use some time next
season; the indestructible clothes line was fixed at a convenient
height to take off our hats as we entered the garden: several pear
trees which had evidently been thrifty were noticed to have been killed
entirely by blight. A lot of very pretty shoats were noticed in the
pen, which evidently had to depend upon the growing corn crop for a
living as the corn house was bare of corn, except two "bafe"
hide as the Irishman would say. The barn door fastenings were
of the same pattern as those noticed at the meeting last month.

The corn field it was thought would yield 8 bbls per acre, & about
as many pumpkins, judging by the portion we walked through;
the watermelon patch looked so well that we had to try the melons,
& found they did not belie their looks. The wheat field had been
plowed twice & was in elegant order; & the potatoes were about ready
to dig, a few rows that had been gathered turned out about 180 bush
per acre: the peach orchard was the least interesting portion of the
farm, as we did not see a single peach in it; our hosts bone mill
worked by horse power, attracted considerable attention, as did a new
potatoe cellar in course of construction, which was thought by most
of our members to be most too small. In passing through the pasture
a pair of very fine young oxen were noticed; the Sorghum was
next examined, & it was thoughtby many: that it stood a fair
chance for the $20.00 premium. Just before returning to the house