Club Minutes: The Home Interest Society, 1870-1876

7^th When to plant a cedar hedge? Come planting time.

8^th Does it make a floor cold to oil it or is it imagination - Tis the latter.

9^th What are the best chickens for laying - Brahma & Black Spanish.

10^th Does it pay to raise turkeys? A very divided opinion.

11^th What time to sprout potatoes. Now

W.T. Bond wished to call the mention Carbolic acid for burns, mixed 1/6 of Acid with - 5/6 of glycerine Can be had at Brighton, & is a cure for chillblains A. J. Thomas read the "Manufacture of starch" - Anna Moore from Beyond the Mississippi an extract on "see Yossemity & die"

A motion was made & carried that in future the Secretary call the meeting to order at 1/2 past 4 o c

and appoint the foreman for that meeting, to prevent the tardiness with which we get to business and also arrive at the place of meeting B. G. Stabler, who with [] arrived late in the afternoon few favored our having supper early in the afternoon & then attend to business being sure that would bring the members at the time named. Our chip basket has only had a few short articles for some time the members saying generally they had pieces, but forgot to bring them. Cornelia Stabler & Dr Frank Thomas were appointed to read at next meeting which was appointed for A. G. Thomas's April 13^th P. R. Stabler Sec

20^th Meeting, at A. G. Thomas's

Agreeable to adjournment of our last meeting we met at A.G. Thomas's Apl 13^th . We could but notice a great scarcity of our gentlemen members. W^m T & Mary Bond were absent also. Quite a number of guests. Our friends have a good situation for a garden getting ready & some things already planted in it, we were told they also had a young orchard. The corridor of flowers, was greatly admired, none of us ever having seen finer plants or more show of blooms from so few. Carrie L. Brooke foreman & the 1^st question - How to trim gooseberry bushes? Trim out all the wood over 2 years old.

2^nd How deep to plant Japan Lilly works 2 - 2 1/2 inches in good garden soil.

3^rd Is it too late to put down currant & gooseberry cuttings. Will do for currants, the other doubtful.

4^th How soon to put out Geraniums from the first to 2^d of May - the latter date the safest time.

5^th What kind of shade trees to plant round ashton store? Poplar & maple.

6^th Were every bodys raspberry vines very much killed last Winter A very general complaint. 7^th How many members succeeeded in raising Hubbord Squash? None - Referred to W^m H. Stabler who is said to raise fine ones.

8^th Will Cantelopes & cucumbers mix? Yes!

Have the members every tried sprouting Lima beans? One had & tis said to do admirably.

We had some very interesting samples of kindery or sew work sent us by Benjamin Hallowell through Anna L. Moore who was requested to acquaint him of the interest manifested in them.

Dr F. Thomas read "Mount Washington in September." Just here the babys present seemed to feel it best to be heard as well as seen so were banished, to the next room in the care of their fathers, who caused considerabe amusement by the style of assuming the responsibility. Cornelia Stabler read from Gail Hamilton, "considerations between,