2C)0 THE CONNECTICUT PO MO LOGICAL SOCIETY. 



mate, the markets and cheap transportation ; coui>le these 

 Avith faith in your business and you will succeed. 



j\Ir. J. H. Hale responded to this welcome in behalf of 

 the Society, and took occasion, in his characteristic w-ay, to 

 praise the work of the Henrys and the splendid orchards they 

 have built up, on what a few \ears ago was worn out brush 

 land. 



Mr. Hale spoke of the big peach crop soon to be har- 

 vested and the need of co-operation with the railroads, in or- 

 der to distribute the fruit to the best advantage. He added 

 that an effort would be made to send Connecticut peaches to 

 the great New York city market this year, and this should 

 prove a profitable outlet in seasons of heavy crops. The 

 New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad people had 

 promised to do all they could to bring about this result. 



Announcements concerning the coming New England 

 Fruit Show were made by Mr. C. L. Gold, Connecticut vice- 

 president of the show^ and then Mr. A. T. Henry, the young 

 host of the occasion, was called upon to tell the company 

 about the fruit farm and the methods in use in the orchard- 

 ing operations. Mr. Henry laid special stress on the impor- 

 tance of cover crops in the orchard and the plowing under 

 of clover and other humus-making plants. 



After the speech making, the attention of the visitors 

 was centered upon the dynamite demonstrations, which were 

 carried out on a distant part of the farm, and showing the 

 use of dynamite in blowing- out stumps and rock and clear- 

 ing land for tree planting. 



A further visit to the orchards, where in the peach sec- 

 tion some superb Greensboro peaches were being picked, 

 many business conferences between the fruit buyers and the 

 growers present, and a discussion of peach shipping ar- 

 rangements with the railroad officials, and last, but not least, 

 a social good time for the members and their friends round- 

 ed out a day of great profit and pleasure, and as a "peach 

 field dav" one lon^- to be remembered. 



