HORTICULTURAL POSSIBILITIES OF CONNECTICUT 173 



Trolley car lines, being quite widely extended through 

 many farming sections of the state, and running express 

 cars at certain hours of the day and freights at night, 

 are proving quite a factor in the distribution of horticultu- 

 ral products. The Hale peach farms at South Glastonbury 

 were the first in America to use the new electric power in 

 the marketing of their products, fruit being loaded at the 

 farm side-track as gathered during the day and transported 

 to market at night, after passenger service has closed for 

 the day, unloading in the city from the main line tracks, 

 directly in front of the stores in the early morning hours 

 before the tracks are again required for passenger service, 

 and returning the empty cars to the farm side-track before 

 a new day's work in the orchard has begun. 



The Connecticut Pomological Society, organized some 

 ten years ago, is a prominent feature in the lively fruit 

 interests of the state. It has a large, active membership, 

 and, aside from its annual winter meeting, it holds each 

 summer three or more "field meetings," on fruit farms in 

 different sections of the state, and there, around tree, plant 

 and vine, the members meet and discuss the live topics of 

 the hour, gathering inspiration which is marching Connecti- 

 cut into the very front rank of horticultural states.— J. H. 

 Hale, in Cyclopedia of American Horticulture. 



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The Water in Fruits.— The black spots show the solids; the balance is all water. The fellow who 

 doesn't work water into his fruit usually has a crop of stuff not much larger than the solid spots! 



