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meetings and hear the addresses and see the officers — and 

 honestly their president wasn't as handsome as ours, either. 



The closing feature of the morning's program and the 

 one ])erhaps of greatest interest was an illustrated address on 

 "Market Gardening on Long Island," by Mr. H. B. Fuller- 

 ton of Huntington. 



Mr. Fullerton is no stranger to Connecticut audiences 

 and never fails to please as well as instruct by his breezy 

 and forceful manner of presenting the results of his remark- 

 able success on the Long Island soil. 



But in this instance the speaker was more interesting 

 and entertaining than ever and for more than an hour and a 

 half he held his audience spellbound with the glowing account 

 of the striking methods and results achieved with ordinary 

 market garden crops, the whole vividly illustrated with a 

 vast number of fine lantern slides. 



The dinner hour went by unheeded, nearly all remain- 

 ing until the close of this intensely interesting and practical 

 lecture, which awakened in us all a determination to make 

 better use of our opportunities in the future. We regret that 

 in the absence of Mr. Fullerton's pictures we can give here 

 only the chief points brought out by the speaker. 



" Market Gardening on Long Island ; Some Striking 

 Methods and Results." 



H. B. Fullerton, Huntington, L. I. 

 Director of the Long Island R. R. Experimental Stations. 

 For a young man starting out in life there is nothing 

 that offers the opportunities that agriculture does. The 

 .small farmer — the term market gardener, I like better — is 

 ■something the United States knows little about except as it 

 comes from foreigners. We are beginning to learn from the 

 Italians, the French and the Germans. They come to Amer- 

 ica, and down in Pennsylvania and in Jersey they will make 

 more on from three to five acres than we can make on a 



