2l6 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



would postpone it two weeks more. At the end of two weeks 

 we got together, and during that two weeks lettuce had gone 

 up to 40 cents a bushel, and it seemed pretty good, we had less 

 than 7 at that meeting, so we just disbanded and gave up the 

 idea. 



What should we do in the case of low prices in the sum- 

 mertime? Along at the last end of early tomatoes, and in 

 spinach, radishes and beans, when the price is ruling way 

 down below the cost, a great many ploughed them under and 

 planted another crop. We very often plough under a crop of 

 spinach when it is worth 5 cents a bushel and plant it over to 

 spinach, and we usually get good prices for that crop, because 

 when prices are very low on anything, most people are usually 

 careful about planting that crop. If you sow the seed of 

 these crops when prices are low, way down below the cost of 

 production, you will usually hit a good market. If you sow 

 the seed when the price is high, yoii will find you are at a 

 loss, because everybody will feel like planting on good prices. 



When it comes to the cjuestion of handling our surplus, 

 that is something we can't do' at the present time, and never 

 will until we are organized more closely, imtil we can plan 

 these things. That is a problem that is being considered by a 

 great many people, that is, a distributing organization through- 

 out the country in a large sense. Some of those things will 

 help us. 



A Member: I would like to inquire about the Skinner 

 irrigation scheme. 



Mr. Hall: The Skinner irrigation plan is a simple 

 system. All there is to it deserving the name of Skinner is 

 the nozzle, which we buy from the Skiimer Company. Tliere 

 are several different nozzles made, but the Skinner nozzle has 

 given the best satisfaction of any of them, and is more gener- 

 ally used. In visiting a western trucking section this fall. I 

 found it was used generally. Small brass nozzles are inserted 

 in holes which are drilled and tapped into small iron pipes 

 about an inch, depending on the length (,f the line, and these 



