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H/5/1914-1-

Norwood

May 6th 1914

Joseph T. Moore and his daughter
Margaret Bancroft, received us at this
beautiful home. There was much regret expressed
that Eliza Moore could not be with
us. Illness detained her in Wilmington Del.
We missed her cordial greeting. It was gratifying
to see our host in such good condition
and his daughter was a competant and attentive
hostess.

The minutes were read and accepted
1st Reader, Ellen Farquhar, read about Lima
beans by a New Jersey trucker. He plants from
April 25th to May 10th in that region, places
each bean, eye down. Starts cultivation as soon
as the plants are started, and continues
cultivating throughout the season. When
the begin to run they are tied to the poles
with soft cotton twine. This has to be done
about three times and it was quite a
job. In fact pole Limas always seem to
be requiring some attention, and this year
we are not going have a single pole on the
place. Our bush Limas tasted just as good,
sold as high and yielded as well and
brought us more per acre, with far less
work. We have dropped pole Limas for
bush Limas, "Ford hook" rows 4 1/2 feet apart,
beans 12 to 18 inches apart in the row.
2nd Reader Corrie Brooke read an interesting