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they shall have settled well, did not
seem advisable; nor would
it have been possible owing to lack of
funds.
Careful leveling and grading of the park
area, or as much of
it as may be deemed advisable, remains
as a task for the future.
A preliminary step would be the breaking
up of the entire tract
and seeding it to wheat. This would
facilitate leveling and
grading, by thorough harrowing or
disking, and dragging, and the
wheat stubble would afford a good
nurse-crop for grass, by
sowing, with the wheat, proper amounts
of timothy and blue-
grass seed. An arrangement probably
could be made for the
seeding of the area to wheat this next
autumn which would afford
the Society some monetary returns.
However, it should not be
expected that a prospective farmer could
do this on the usual
half-and-half basis, since, owing to
underground impediments and
other causes, the work of seeding would
be much more difficult
than ordinarily.
In the interest of the general welfare
of the site, it seems
strongly advisable that a tenant,
caretaker, or temporary over-
seer should be on the tract, who might
look after it to some ex-
tent in return for the privilege of
living in the house, provided
that such can be made habitable.
The Society and the Park Committee are
indebted to Doctor
Rowland, in charge of the United States
Veterans' Hospital,
and his farm manager, Mr. Godden, and to
Superintendent Mc-
Donald, of the United States
Reformatory, for many favors and
unstinted assistance in carrying on the
work of restoration.
(Signed) A. C. SPETNAGEL,
Chairman.
H. C. SHETRONE,
Curator.
The Committee on
NECROLOGY
reported as follows:
With regret we report the death of the
following members
of the Society:
Hon. Rufus B. Smith, Cincinnati, Ohio,
in 1924.
Mrs. Mary C. L. Stevenson, Dresden,
Ohio, January 9, 1925.
Mr. R. R. Walker, 528 East Broad Street,
Columbus, Ohio,
March 16, 1925.
Hon. Birchard A. Hayes, Toledo, Ohio,
January 24, 1926.
Mr. Hayes was a son of President
Rutherford B. Hayes and a
brother of Colonel Webb C. Hayes, a
Trustee of this Society.