Friday, May 23, 2008

Farmers' Institute at Jamaica

New York, 1895

A farmers' and market gardeners' institute will be held in the Town Hall, Jamaica, Wednesday and Thursday, February 27th and 28th. The list of local speakers is as follows: Address of welcome, John O'Donnell; "Forcing Vegetables Under Glass," J. Milton Bergen; "Elements of Success in Market Gardening," John E. Backus; "Farm Gardening," George W. Hallack; "Early Field Tomatoes," T. F. D. Baker; "What Agricultural Experiment Stations have Done, Can Do, and Cannot Do," F. A. Sirrine.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, Feb. 15, 1895, p. 12.

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