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meat or let it stay longer in brine it having been 8
weeks in Salt & frozen most of the time.
Ans hang it up immediately
2nd Will it pay to buy Plaster at $14.00 per ton, or use bone dust instead
Ans. 9 Plaster 4 bone dust.
3rd What is the best manure for Potatoes
Ans 9 Peruvian Guano & Bone, 5 Phosphates & Guano.
4th What-kind of Potatoes will you Plant
Ans. Buckeyes & White Chilies mostly.
After supper the questions were continued.
5th When is the right time to Sow plaster.
Ans now.
6th When is the proper time to sell beef cattle.
Ans "Let them slip to Georgetown now".
7th How many Potatoes lost by frost since last fall by those present.
Ans 351 bu.
8th What is the best style of Potato cellar.
Ans dig out, wall up and put a house over it.
9th How much mill feed & corn meal mixed 1/2 and 1/2 should
be given a milk cow
Ans. 1 gal & shelter.
10th How long to smoke meat & how to keep out skippers.
Ans. Smoke till warm weather, black pepper or dark houses
will keep out Skippers.
11th What do you think of soiling cattle
Ans Some think it will pay, others say stock will not
keep well, experiments recommended.
12th What would you do with a sick cow.
Ans. bore her horns & split her tail.
13th What is the best shape for a barn.
Ans. 15 different ideas.
14th I have 50 or 60 bu. rotten potatoes, will they composted
with various kinds of dirt be fit for corn hills in the spring.
Ans. Advised to feed them to hogs, or throw away.
15th would you ridge roads.
Ans. 12 ayes, 3 nays.
P. T. Stabler asked to consider the propriety of
petitioning the Mayor