The return to the simple has already commenced 



Among the various ways of diverting the mind from the cares 

 of business and professional life, farming offers possibilities 

 not possessed by most other forms of so-called recreation. — 

 B. A. Jones. 



THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



EDUCATION AND RECREATION 

 Volume IV AUGUST 1911 



Number 4 



Fairfield Farming by Modern Methods 



By EDWARD F. BIGELOW, Arcadia: Sound Beach, Connecticut 



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F all the farmers in this 

 Fairfield County as it was 

 fifty years or so ago, and 

 if most of those of the 

 present day, could or 

 would visit Air. L. H. 

 Lapham's Waveny Farm 

 at Talmadge Hill, they would be sur- 

 prised to find farming, in what is prac- 

 tically a suburb of New York City, that 

 in extent, systematic method and mod- 

 ern equipment rivals or at least equals 

 the best farms of the west. 



Mr. Lapham is an eminently suc- 

 cessful business man of New York 

 City, extensively interested in oil, 

 leather and other affairs of transporta- 

 tion, commerce and manufacture. But 

 at heart he is a farmer, owning many 



acres in the west, as well as this home 

 farm in the east, where he happily com- 

 bines pleasure and business. As I have 

 wandered over the place watching its 

 varied operations, more and more have 

 I been impressed by the fact that such 

 farming is not only pleasure and busi- 

 ness, but pleasure depending upon 

 good business methods. All operations 

 are perfectly conducted, and are there- 

 fore always a joy. In the management 

 of the farm the proprietor employs the 

 most commendable business methods. 

 Not a phase seems slipshod or ineffi- 

 cient, and an important factor is that 

 he started right, by putting at the head 

 of the establishment a thoroughly 

 trained and college-trained, scientific 

 farmer, Mr. E. A. Jones, who had pre- 



Copyright 1911 by The Agassiz Association, Arcadia: Sound Beach, Conn. 



