Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-04-25

f. G. Hudson Of Winthrop, '"The
Cauliflower King" the farmer"
member of the Augusta Rotary Club
was the speaker at the regular sup
per session of the club which was
held in the banquet hall at the Au
gusta House Friday evening. Mr.
Hudson convinced his fellow club
members and the large number of
guests present at the meeting that
raising two score and more acres of
caulifloWer was a real man size"
task, and demanded something more
scientific than old fashioned haphaz-
ard methods of gardening.
John A. Hanson, newly elected vice
president of the Club, presided in
the absence of President Everett V.
Perkins, who left Friday morning
with the Cony High school senior
class party to the National capital
Jack handled his meeting expedi-
uouSly and the entire session was
one of exceptional interest. Many
members of the Augusta Rotary,
who had been in Portland for. the
sessions of the Eighth District Con-
ference, returned just in time to par
uclpate in the meeting of their home
club.
Boys Work Plans
Something of the plans for the
Boys Week program, which will be
lnaugurated on Sunday, when the
pastors of the several churches of
the city will give the special recog-
milton to the youth of our city in
their sermons, was explained by w.
l.. Perry, chairman of the Rotary
committee. On Monday it is plan
ned to take groups of the boys
through the several industrial plants,
and explain to them something of the
ways of manufacturing.
The one big day on which the
entire membership of the Augusta
Rotary Club will concentrate their
efforts in observance of the week
VIII be on Thursday, when a great
convoy of automobiles will be as
sembled at the corner Of State and
winthrop streets at 10 o'clock in the
forenoon to take $50 Augusta lads
on an all-day junliet to Merrymeet-
ing Park, near Brunswick. The mo-
tor caravan will get under way at
1870 and will proceed all the way
over State highways to the site
"hiGi ioS bteil Selecleu dS picnic
grounds, where the box lunches will
be opened up, and where ice cream
and bottled soda will be dispensed
by the hosts.
The tickets for the Rotary eycur-
sion have already been given out in
the schools, and if the affair of last
year may be taken as an example.
Thursday promises to be a red let
ter day not only for the youngsters.
but for their big brothers of Rotary,
who will enter into the days program
IN the same spirit as the special
guests. The return to this city will
be made at about a o'clock. s,t
Ihere were several members of the
newly organized Pennington Rotary
Club! present at the meeting last eve
nlng, and Leon Luce and George Mel.
l'resson of that club spoke briefly ex-
tending Invitations to the Augusta Ro-
tarians to attend the charter night OBJ
servance of Pennington Rotary.
which will be held next Tuesday eve
ming.
Talk by Farmer Members
f. G. Hudson, the speaker of the
evening. proprietor of the Broadview
Farm at Winthrop, told his audience
that his first experience in market
gardening on a large scale was on his
fathers farm on Long Island, New
York, in 1875. Mr.. Hudson came to
Maine in 1910, and from his early be-
glnnings when he had considerable
difficulty in exchanging his first sea-
sons crop of produce for articles in
trade in the Augusta stores, the bust
ness has developed rapidly. until last
year the Hudson interests furnished
practicable SSCL nf oil
used in the Augusta area.
In 1921, IL acres were devoted to
caulifiower at '"Broadview;" last year
this acreage had been increased to AZ,
and Mr.. Hudson said last evening that
this season they expect to plant co
acres to that vegetable. The production
will call for the loading Of a car a
day for the Boston, New York and city
markets. The Hudson enterprise dur
ing the season is furnished with daily
wire reports from the big market CEN
tiers and they keep in touch with the
loaded cars on the railroads so that
at any time they can divert a car or
cars to another city. The product of
Broadview Farm is shipped to New
York, Chicago, st. Louis, Pittsburgh,
Washington and New orleans in car
load lots
Inc crop is started from plant seed
lings, which are started under glass,
and this coming season the Hudson
farm will use 100000 plants from New
Jersey and 100000 more which they
will cultivate themselves. The plants
are set out on the prepared land at
Winthrop between May Is and July /.
and Mr.. Hudson spoke Interestingly of
the many processes Of cultivation and
the large crews of workmen necessary
to raise the caulflower, pick, pack and
ship to the market. In 1924, 10000
boxes, or 80 carloads, were disposed of
in the metropolitan centers, and for
the first time last year several hun
dred cases of caulifiower We're canned
and placed on sale as an experiment.
The speaker told something of the
cost per acre of raising cauliflower
and declared that the farmers of
Maine should take steps for coopera-
tive marketing of their farm products,
and that then and only then would
Maine boom. The talk was most en-
tightening and interesting and MI
Hudson was enthusiastically applaud
ed at the conclusion of his remarks.