Connecticut western news., 1872-01-26
The Tobacco Interest.

The tobacco business is becoming, as most other matters, a science. Those who gre smart enough to avail themselves of the subtle alchemy ot natures chemical laws of plant food, growth and assimilation, are paying off their mortgages and making a snug little bank account, merely by manu featuring stable manure into fine, silky seed eaf wrappers. Those who still persist il.
 rying to manufacture fine seed leaf out ot their land, are forced to content themselves with low prices and slender purse, while they see their more careful and enterprs- ing neighbors, if not exactly ''rioting on beans," at least possessed of pocketsful oi money.
 The crop of 70, which, owing to the terrible drought, did not cure well, remains mostly unsold. The farmers generally cased it and there it remains. But 1871 made ample amends for all difciencies of 1870.
 One purchase has been made this week of three cases of East Hartford leaf at 55 cents. Three acres of Newington were bought at 37. One purchase has been made, this week, of Case and half ot East Hartford '69, at 60 cents.
 We hear of anumber of sales of Fl, dur ing the last two weeks, at 60 cents. This nigh price is freely paid for best qualities, even where the purchase is made by the entire lot-three or four acres, or more, as he case may be. Such crops have been ,old at these figures Tn East Hartford, South Windsor, and we believe also in Gluston- oury and Windsor. There are exceptional eases where even much higher prices have recently been paid; but these were for crops on which intelligent and unusual pains had been taken. We know of one man who has just sold the product of seven md half acres for over $l2,OOO; but these are exceptional sales which do pot govern the market. One man may get 6U pr 70 cents pound for his whole crop of tobacco grown on precisely the ga re soil IS his neighbours, while the latter can get only 28 to 30. Why this difference Simply because in one Case the grower was careful and particular in all the processes, not more so Ill using the best stable manure on his field, than he was in the later stages of hanging and sweating. Our Valley tobacco growers are learning that in raising tobacco as in everything else in this life, it ''pays,' to do aoe1 what is worth doing at all. The fame of the seedleaf grown in this county c ,1 al iances all other kinds in the market. In Massachusetts, even the township of Had ley, which is deemed the best for tobacco. only gets crops that bring 28 and 30 cents, through. Here, in East Hartford, South Windsor, Glastonbury, Windsor, Bloom held, Sutfirld, and some other towns in this county. many growers have sold their entire crop at 40 cents, and in numerous instances much higher rates have been paid for par ticular lots.
 The prices are now as high as they are likely 10 go. These things equalize and adjust themselves to the other circumstances of life, as water finds it's own level Our farmers are now getting every dollar the crop is worth. Small farms of six 10 four teen acres arc now found to be very prof table if they include three or four acres of good tobacco land. Let our farmers be content with the high prices now ruling, and, unless unfavorabe seasons occur, they will find their crops bringing in very hand some returns.
 The tobacco crop of 1871 has already brought into the pockets of farmers in thls country alone, as we are informed, upwards of four millions lars-Harttord TSmes.