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Sarah Kirk wants to know the owner of a plate left
at the Hospital supper.

What is a good variety of gooseberry. Downing or Industry.

Speaking of Lindbergh, an old Ford went through, known
as "the Spirit of St. Vitus".

Are apricot trees a success in this neighborhood. Not
in the past, but there are new hardy varieties.

Cousin Ben Miller read statistics to prove that it costs
a farmer more to raise his stuff than he gets for it. The dirt
farmers thought that the time was figured at a city man's wage.

Lucy Moore sent a question: The tenants at Springdale will
leave unless fleas left by former tenant are exterminated. She
has used 100 lbs. lime. Is she responsible? If so, what should
she do. She will lose tenant if she does not take responsibility.
Try sheep dip.

Should cauliflower have attention? Draw big leaves together
over head.

A softish bug with a stripe down the back is eating tomato
vines. Spray with pyrox.

Does anyone have crabapples? Milton Bancroft has a few.

Will it hurt two-foot maple trees if the roots are cut
ten feet from the tree, for the foundation of gate posts at
Norwood entrance? No. Cover the ends of the roots with
cement.

Will a car depreciate more if left in the garage, or
run a short distance every day? Opinions were about equal
for summer. If it is run in the winter, it should be run
long enough to get well heated to prevent rusting. But
good health is more to be desired than a long-lived
automobile.

A memorial to Pattie Farquhar was read by Annie B. Kirk,
and is as follows:

In lamenting the death of Martha Thomas Farquhar, one of
our older and most valued members, the dwellers in Sandy
Spring village, around which our Home Interest centers, and
where she made her home these last few years, are constantly
impressed with the gap which she has left in that small community.
Never has one passed on from that little centre who
has been more missed even in the two or more months that have
elapsed since her death. The remark is heard on all sides,
"How I do miss Pattie".

The Home Interest will miss her cheerful presence and
friendly hand clasp, but her other neighbors near and far will
miss her sympathy with the sorrows of others and the constant
deeds of kindness for which she was well known.

Adopting as her rule of life the line which says, "I'll
live by the side of the road", she carried this principle
into her daily life to an unusual degree; and no descending