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CONNECTICUT TOBACCO.
Booming Because sumatra Tobacco Ila,
Been barred Out.

Booming because sumatra Tobacco Has
Been barred Out.
HARTFORD. May 9.--There Is a wonderful
boom in tobacco culture in tho Connecticut
Valley. which Is the effect. the farmers say Of
the law barring out Sumatra tobacco from this
country. That kind OF tobacco. which Is pro-
duced by coolie cheap labor. has long been a
formidable competitor OF the Connecticut VAL
Icy weed. but since the proscrptlve legislation
took effect, which was duo to persistent agita-
tion on the part Of tho valley farmers for sev.
eral years. that cheap foreign product has
been practically excluded from the United
States.
In tho opinion OF Connecticut advocates Of
the Sunatra statute. "as long as the Sumatra
tobacco is kept out Of the market. and as long
as the Connecticut growers take suitable care
Of their crops. they cnn command profitable
prices for 1t and regain in wealth what they
had been for years losing under tho disastrous
competition OF the coole labor OF tho island of
Sumatra. II protected. tho tobacco growers OF
Connecticut can produce tho very best quality
tof tobacco) and can do what tho coolies Of
Sumntra have been doing for the cigar indus
try. The new law takes tho privilege Of rails
Ing tobacco wrappers for our cigars out OF the
hands OF the slave labor of Sumatra and places
1t in the hands Of the farmers of
Whatever may be the cause Of it, there is no
great and substantial; The Connecticut. farm
ever before. In, the town Of snifield alone. one
worth @ Of d moss
OF which, are tobacco barns. Two Hartford
builders hive contracts to erect buildings for
lorty-one farmers. at Il cost OF $4,000. on the
same number Of farms. aggregating u total
acreage Of over 100. Many new farmers arc go-
year, especially in the towns Of Poouonock
Windsor, East Hartford. Glastonbury. and
Bloomileld. and though the tobacco products
Of that Of 1880 the ms are H1 that
there will be rroportionate rate Of increase
Any one passing through the valley this
spring will hardly fail to note unusual signs OF
activity on tho part of tobacco growers. and
housing the plants. which dot the s country ON on
every side. About every raiser is putting up
ing sheds are notably spacious. Especially is
tho statement true of the farmers in the
PoIuonock district who have the reputation OF
fey '"' "A''' '''"''' 'n '"' "''''e 'a'-
Among the most skiful growers is Mr..
business Of growing tobacco in uefyv very Modest
way. and who, beginning with only half an
acre Of plants has steadily Increased his acre
f fetched the highest price paid ior the domes.
the quality OF it. Othor iiLe tobacco growers
IN the same district nre Addison Lanpheare.
H,cSs, i; 5; Frye. so, President Of tho New
Thrall Brothers. Job o. Phelps James N.
brown. Hestus W. Afford. and Albert
lIoleomb Not only is the tobacco boom help
iul to the valley farmers. but to their capable
hired men, Men who were satisfied with wages
OF $50 and $24 month and hoard last year
the last named figures good help is scarce.
Swedes are the best employees and there is
males in PoQuonock. In the town OF Blooms
field are from fifteen to eighteen sheds in proc
to eight acres OF tobacco each. and cost from
$4OO to $1,000 each. In that town William
Eggert 4 Son OF New York city recently pur-
and propose to plant twenty acres Of it with
fine tobacco The next largest patch in Bloom
field Is Eugene Clarks Of fifteen acres.