POETRY PREFACED PEACHES 



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duction at the least expenditure pos- insect troubles. But care and effort 



sible. rightly applied bring results. This 



Mr- Barrows is college trained in year is the first year of the larger crops 



everything that pertains to up-to-date to be expected from this farm. For 



farming and forestry and especially in the first time the peach trees have come 



fruit growing. The equipment of May- into bearing and it is estimated that 



apple Farm is ideal. The old barns the crop will total nearly two thousand 



MR. BARROWS (AT LEFT) AND ASSISTANTS SORTING PEACHES AND LOADING THEM INTO 



AN AUTO TRUCK (IN THE BACKGROUND). 



have been pulled down and replaced 

 by better and larger ones. The old 

 homestead is still retained as the care- 

 taker's lodge while the new homestead 

 in its palatial beauty crowns the sum- 

 mit of the farm ,the highest elevation 

 for miles around. 



Still the work goes on- A large ap- 

 ple orchard has recently been set out 

 but in the waiting for their maturity 

 there is no leaning on the oars. The 

 ground has been utilized to the utmost 

 for corn, and one of the heaviest crops 

 of the state is produced between the 

 rows of thriving young apple trees 

 The remarkable prolificness of this 

 farm is not by chance. The orchards 

 represent industry combined with the 

 best modern knowledge. After every 

 rain the ground is stirred. The weeds 

 are kept out. The tree trunks are 

 treated with the chemicals most ap- 

 proved for the prevention of fungus and 



baskets- These are not harvested all 

 at one time but in the different varieties 

 are scattered well over the season from 

 about the middle of September to way 

 into October. 



We predict great things for this 

 farm. Mr. Barrows is full of energy 

 and has the requisite knowledge and 

 ample financial facilities for ideal de- 

 velopment. At the recent meeting of 

 the Northern Nut Growers Association 

 in Stamford it was voted to accept his 

 offer to establish an experimental nut 

 orchard on his farm. Work on that will 

 begin in the spring and will be followed 

 with the greatest of interest by the 

 nut growers, while the development of 

 all the interests of this farm of manifold 

 efforts will be closely watched by 

 those in the line of the back to nature 

 renaissance as well as tho c e who real- 

 ize that battles are won by hoes and 

 spades as well as by guns and can- 



