SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 191 



A g-ood program of speaking had been arranged, hut 

 owing to the absence of most of the horticuUural talkers, the 

 discussions were largely along dairy lines. Dairying is the 

 main business at the Kingsbury B'arm, although a good many 

 choice apples are grown and marketed. 



Located on the fertile hills of Tolland County, conditions 

 are favorable for apple orcharding of the highest order. By 

 carefully following the most advanced methods, the Messrs. 

 Kingsbury have developed a very successful and profitable 

 farm, that was well worth the trip to see. 



Closing Field Meeting of 1907, at J. H. Hale's, South Glaston- 

 bury, September 17. 



THE CONx\ECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 



By Invitation of Mr. J. H. Hale, 



Will round out the Field Meeting Season with a rousing gathering at 



his Fruit Farm, South Glastonbury, on Tuesday, the 17th. 



Bro. Hale, in his letter of invitation, says: All who want to see 

 the Hale Farm in an "off year" are cordially invited to come. As to 

 what can be seen: there is the farm itself; orchards young and old, 

 without fruit, that have pulled through the drought in fine shape ; 

 thirty to forty acres of cow peas, two-thirds of which have clover 

 sown with them, in all stages of success and failure ; over one hun- 

 dred acres of clover, with turnips mixed for protection, that is just 

 beginning to grow after the long wait for moisture ; vineyards ; small 

 fruits, and general farm crops that are just waking up from the 

 drought, and the only fruit in sight, a few apples. 



The 150 acres of "rough land" tract that I had just tackled when 

 the Society met here three years ago — and members on the quiet said 

 that "Hale was a fool or crazy" is now just coming on in fine shape; 

 so come and visit the "fool's" piece of work, it's worth seeing as an 

 object lesson of what to do, or not to do. 



Also we are just starting in again to clear another rough tract 

 of similar nature as to woods and rocks and it should be a fine object 

 lesson. 



Here lunches will be eaten and afterward an informal meeting of 

 the Society held for speeches and discussion, and from this point 

 visitors can work tjieir way down hill through the home-farm orchards 

 ami fields of small fruits to the home grounds, and so finish up the- 

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