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]\Iany of the visitors continued their trip to the Sea View 

 peach orchard, a mile or two distant, and noted with interest 

 and surprise the prospects for a fair crop of fruit this season. 

 This orchard is located on high ground, not far from Lake 

 Saltonstall, and has been a very profitable orchard from the 

 start, there having been almost no "off-years" in its fruiting. 



As the afternoon closed, the members left by trolley, all 

 voting the "combination of shore picnic and field meeting" a 

 success. 



FIELD DAY AND PICNIC 



AT HiGGANUM. 



August 26, ipo^. 



"By invitation of the Higganum Grange and Geo. M. Clark, 

 the Society will hold a Field Meeting at Higganum, Wednes- 

 day the 26th. 



Members and their friends will gather at the Grange Hall, 

 located one-third mile from the depot, where a basket-picnic- 

 lunch will be served at noon. 



The forenoon will be devoted to looking over the famous 

 grass fields and plum orchards of Geo. M. Clark. Mr. Clark's 

 success in intensive grass culture by which he has secured a 

 yield of more than six tons to the acre, is well-known, and 

 this visit to his farm will be of great interest to all farmers. 



After dinner there will be speaking, music, etc., in the Town 

 Hall. Prof. L. A. Clinton of the Storrs Experiment Station, 

 J. H. Hale, Dairy Commissioner Noble and others will address 

 the meeting on topics of timely interest." 



In response to this invitation a very large number of mem- 

 bers of the Society and others, farmers from nearly every 

 section of the State, gathered at FTigganum on the appointed 

 day and enjoyed a very pleasant and profitable field day, receiv- 

 ing unbounded hospitality at the hands of the local Grange 

 people. 



Teams were taken at the railroad station and a trip made to 

 Mr. Clark's farm and orchard. 



This is the farm that has become famous all over the 

 East for its immense crops of grass, its o\\Tier being the 

 pioneer in the "new grass culture." The very heavy first 

 crop had already been cut and cured, and the splendid hay 



