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Other staple crops, winding up at the barns, where a large 

 dairy herd is kept and which in winter accomodates several 

 thousand lambs that are fed for market, "Lyman's Lamb" 

 being a well known product in the New England markets. 



All these various crops showed the best of care and good 

 management, and could not help but furnish valuable lessons 

 as well as inspiration for all who saw them. Not a few of the 

 visitors were heard to remark, "I did not realize that Connec- 

 ticut had such big farms under cultivation as this one and 

 so successfully managed as well." 



About one o'clock the company sat down to a bountiful 

 basket lunch spread on the shady lawns in front of the Lyman 

 residence. Plate IV. gives a view of Mr. Lyman's pleasant 

 home and the assembled company. 



Following dinner President Gulley called the gathering to 

 order for a brief season of speaking and discussion. 



Mr. Lyman welcomed the visitors and told them something 

 of his farm operations. He said he expected his hay crop — one 

 of his money crops — would yield 600 tons this season. 



Professor Britton, State Entomologist, spoke next. He 

 referred to the damage to orchards by the scale and winter-kill- 

 ing throughout the state. It is hard to account for some of 

 the injury, but trees infested with scale had killed out the 

 worst. 



The Rev. Mr. Slaight of Middlefield gave a fine talk and 

 paid a high tribute to such energetic fruit growers as Mr. 

 Lyman. "We owe much to the men who overcome great odds 

 and succeed in producing fine fruits," said he. 



Vice-President J. M. Hubbard, who had just returned from 

 the St. Louis Exposition, was called out to tell of what he had 

 seen at the Fair. He said there was much to see of interest, 

 and that Connecticut's exhibits are on the whole very credit- 

 able to the state. Referring to the Lyman farm, Mr. Hubbard 

 said it is a remarkable combination of fruit farming, hay, 

 sheep and general crops. It is the man behind it that makes 

 it the success it is. 



President Gulley followed with an appeal to growers to 

 keep the fruit exhibit at St. Louis supplied and up to the 

 standard already set. 



