. The lure of the land . r, 1906 Being Suffolk Countyites we are allowed to enter vegetables forcompetition and strange to relate, the yearling farm won eleven firstprizes, six seconds and an honorary mention. The portable had itsminiature sign by the front door flanked by teosinte and backed byVirginia horse tooth, the interior had one room furnished as a bedroom,while the others had tables loaded down with vegetables ofvarious sorts. There was a goodly showing for the time of year, let-tuce, endive, summer and spring radishes, beets, onions, carrots, par-snips, salsify, beans, sugar corn, to
. The lure of the land . r, 1906 Being Suffolk Countyites we are allowed to enter vegetables forcompetition and strange to relate, the yearling farm won eleven firstprizes, six seconds and an honorary mention. The portable had itsminiature sign by the front door flanked by teosinte and backed byVirginia horse tooth, the interior had one room furnished as a bedroom,while the others had tables loaded down with vegetables ofvarious sorts. There was a goodly showing for the time of year, let-tuce, endive, summer and spring radishes, beets, onions, carrots, par-snips, salsify, beans, sugar corn, tomatoes, squash, marrow, canta-loupes, watermelons, mangles, sugar beets, pe-tsai, and sakurajima,potatoes, sweet and white, cabbage, sprouts and peanuts, alfalfa, mil-let, corn, sorghum and teosinte. The little cottage was crowded with visitors every day, some fromcuriosity, some from real interest, many came back a second and thirdtime becoming so absorbed in the subject we would often talk forhours. The Fairfiign-board. These are scrub oak vegetables, raised in one year without the useof commercial fertilizer, we would say. Oh, I dont know about that, would come the rejoinder. Then Ill tell you, and the whole story of the farms historywould be repeated. No one who heard or saw it as I have tried to re-
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