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and the l>r<ja(l-lfaf, thrown cliic-tly on tlie cast of tiic Kiver. 

 Tlu' i)lanls arc transj^laiUcd to tlic ficld in late May or early 

 June and the crop is UMiall}- liar\ ested in about seventy days. 

 'n ll>K, the Connecticut acreage was 21,100; production, 

 .^9,540,000 i)ounds. and total value. .$1 1 ,;5 i:5,oo(i, or an average 

 value of '$5-'i^.()0 per acre. 



VEGETABLE GROWING. 



The many cities and towns scattered through(jut the state 

 furnish most excellent markets for fresh vegetables. As the 

 population in the manufacturing centers of Connecticut in- 

 creases, in the same degree will the demand for the market 

 gardeners' produce increase. When you consider that the 

 cities now consume more fresh vegetables than the state pro- 

 duces, you must realize the unusual opportunities for the 

 further development of market gardening plainly evident to 

 those who study the growth in population and wealth of the 

 industrial centers of Connecticut. The long distance be- 

 tween this state and the truck growing states of the south; 

 the urgent need felt by every one in recent years to save car 

 space and steam power for absolutely necessary purposes ; 

 the growing discrimination on the part of the buying public 

 in favor of tlie very highest quality in food products; these 

 all mean that Connecticut vegetables should supply a much 

 larger ])art of the demand than they do at the present time. 

 The splendid road system of the state and the increasing 

 number of motor trucks which carry both perishable vege- 

 tables and less perishable farm supplies over the highways 

 more quickly than they can be carried by rail, are big factors 

 in the present grovv'th of the vegetable industry. They will, 

 however, become even larger factors when both producers 

 and consumers learn to take full advantage of their useful- 

 ness. 



That the market garden industry of the state is on a solid 

 foundation is attested by the fact that there are in the state 

 six local vegetable growers' associations, in addition to a 

 state association, with which the locals are affiliated. Mem- 

 bership in one of these growers' organizations means much 

 to both the old and the new market gfardeners, who throuo-h 

 their membership are assured of a part in the state-wide im- 



