The Newtown bee., 1893-03-10

ing and exhibited Champion aerator. a comparatively new departure in the mat ter of cooling milk.
 They wished to impress it upon the farmers that milk properly drawn from a COW will keep longer than otherwise and milk run through an aerator and then placed in water will keep in good condi- tion from 24 to 36 hours longer than milk not so treated and placed in water 10 de- grees colder than that aerator treated. Baker X Gray had received statement from the Consolidated company that on and after April l, no milk will be deliv- cred by them below the Harlem river. Milk producers in the Housatonic valley
 HAVE BEEN AT A DISADVANTAGE for years; they have been shifted around from one place to another and now it is getting down to one point. Freight is to be D cents, instead of 30 cents at pres ent.
 President Seeley brought up the mat ter of the cooling of milk at the meeting year ago. Milk must be cared for in better shape than at the present day.
 Dr Jenkins of the Connecticut state ex- pertinent station said that "a reduction of the temperature of the milk as soon as drawn from the COW is worth twice as much as that done later. If milk could be drawn from the udder without con- tact with the air it would keep to all eter- nity." It is of the greatest importance to both producer and purchaser that milk should be properly cared for at once.
 A letter from $. D. Baldwin of Great Harrington was read by Secretary Marsh. MT Baldwin was not able to be present as he had been sick all winter. He is deeply interested in the welfare of all dairy men, whether in Massachusetts, Connecticut or elsewhere. ''If Baker & Gray show aerators, etc., ask them if something better cannot be done in re- gard to cleansing cans when they are first emptied." MT Baker said that it
 WOULD BE AN UTTER ACCESSIBILITY to have their 50 or more customers rinse, to say nothing of washing, the cans. MT Seeley said, Mail side by side with the cooling of the milk the matter of cleans ing the cans. Have the customers un- derstand that if they will help the pro- ducer in this matter, they can depend on better milk. Cleanliness New York, back in the country, everywhere!"
 pr Jenkins of the Connecticut Agricul- tural Experiment Station was then intro duced and gave a lengthy and exceeding ly interesting paper on tobacco culture.
 
 any animal. It must have potash, soda, lime, magnesia, sulphuric acid and chlor- inc, nitrogen and phosphoric acid. If any one is lacking, the plant cannot live. Chlorine is absolutely essential to perfect tobacco. Man can be starved as effectu- ally by withholding salt as he can by withholding bread or meat. Years ago this plan was pursued as a method of punishment in the East. Tobacco can not live without chlorine any U ore than man can without salt. We are accus- toned to think of the microbe as a very pernicious beast, but should remember that without it there would be no vege- table life. Better raise 1000 pounds of wrappers than 200O pounds of tobacco hay.
 POOR TOBACCO Is A LOSS
 and if a certain neighborhood gets the reputation of raising poor tobacco, it de- moralizes the whole neighborhood. It is good policy to feed well, even extrava- gantly, in order to secure fine crop. Light tobacco soils are liable to lose much by washing and teaching and sur plus capital must be supplied in the soil. Do not feed too freely of chlorine, as na- ture will supply what is generally need ed. A high amount of phosphate is as a general thing injurious. A leaf to be of | good quality must hold fire and leave a | white ash. To secure best quality of wrapper is high art. All tobaccos con- | tain albuminoids and fats and these all | throw off offensive odors, especially in slow burning cigars. Color and burning quality are the points to be particularly noticed, but especially burning quality, A large per cent of chlorine will not burn | we'll. Tobacco seems to take up phos. | plates slowly and plants assimilate the poor quality to great extent from the | soil.
 NORTHERN GROWN TOBACCO | is heavier in albuminoids and fats than | that grown South, and perhaps for that reason Cuban and Mexican tobacco is considered much superior to Connecticut grown, although brains cause Housaton. | ic and Connecticut valley tobacco to stand we'll in market to-day. We arc not at the top yet. believe that we shal lead the werld yet in the market. Suma tra or no Sumatra, tariff or no tariff Some ask, sWhat of stable manure as 8 | fertilizer ?'' There is nothing better, ac | corGiDg to some; others would not take it as a gift. Some think one way, some another. Years ago horse manure was I thought to be excellent when darE wrapper was wanted; Housatonic valley farms will bear horse manure better thar the lighter lands of the Connecticut val I ley. Packers claim that manure growr tobacco improves greatly in the sweat Dried fish scrap was once popular, but appears to have fallen from grace. A good thorough trial will be given it or the state grounds at Poquonnock another season. Castor pomace and cotton seed meal are used largely in the Connecticut valley and
 PRODUCE GOOD RESULTS.
 l Lirseed meal will be tried at Poquonnock this year, to replace cottonseed meal, 1 is ruling high ($31 per ton instead of S25 few years since) and which is being shipped largely to England for food. The question was asked, ssWhat causes tobacco rush ?n Dr Jenkins did not know and had never seen it. Would like sam. pie sent to the station or would like to be sent for to make an examination nexl season. Cottonseed meal and sulphate of potash should be applied at least two l weeks before setting plants. Plow in the fall because that destroys the tobacco worm which goes into the ground to hi l bernate. Do not think ground would leach nore by fall blowing; on the othe'