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Entered as Second-Class Matter June 12, 1909, at Sound Beach Post Office, under Act of March 3, 1897. 



Vol 



ume 



VII 



OCTOBER. 



Number 5 



He is Successful in Raising Vegetables. 



BY EDWARD F. BIGELOW, ArcAdiA: Sound Beach, Conn. 



OOD morning, Mr. Thur- 

 ton. I am the editor of 

 The; Guide; to Nature;. I 

 hear that you are more 

 successful than any other 

 man in this part of Con- 

 necticut in raising vege- 

 tables for the city market. 

 In that connection, at this, our first 

 meeting, I want to ask you a question 

 without telling you why I ask it." 



"If it is not too difficult," Mr. Thur- 

 ton said, "I will try to answer it." 



"It is one on the answer to which 

 depends, in my opinion, much of the 

 reason for success or failure. It is: 

 Why are you raising vegetables for 

 the Stamford market?" 



Mr. Thurton laughed as he said, 

 "That is the easiest question in all the 

 world for me to answer. Simply be- 

 cause I like the raising of vegetables 

 better than any other occupation." 



"But, you do not mean to say you 

 would continue to cultivate vegetables 

 and live on this market-garden farm, if 

 it were not financially profitable? In 

 a recent discussion regarding the 

 causes of success or non-success in 

 Connecticut farming, I made this 

 statement, which, a$ a whole, I believe 



to be true, although there may be, as 

 with every other general statement, 

 exceptions due to circumstances that 

 in reality prove the general truth. I 

 have contended that primarily pecuni- 

 ary profit never kept a man on the 

 farm, nor its absence drove him away. 

 And I have further claimed that we 

 are influenced more by our likes and 

 dislikes than by the love of money. 



"I have made inquiries as to who is 

 the most successful farmer in Stam- 

 ford or its vicinity. I have consulted 

 those who place success upon financial 

 profit, and have inquired of those who 

 place success upon the doing of things 

 in the right way. I find in Stamford 

 and its vicinity that the general con- 

 sensus, from both points of view, is 

 that you are the most successful 

 farmer in Fairfield County. I do not 

 mean successful in expending great 

 sums of money in fancy farming 

 largely for pleasure, but I mean as a 

 serious occupation in which one can 

 give vent to his affection for Mother 

 Nature, his liking for the products of 

 the soil, his wish to do good to the 

 community, as well as to earn a living 

 for himself and his family. 



"Perhaps you do not know in what 



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