The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-05-02
SHADE GROWING SEASON.
RAISING TOBACCO UNDER COVER
STARTED IN TARIoUS TOWNS

STARTED IN TARIOUS TOWNS
: OF the Connecticut yalIey-Interviev
with Mr.. Floyd-EnterpriseW VIII b,
9 Conducted on the Largest Scale In
| sufield and Information
! for Growers.
! The new industry of growing wrap
/ per tobacco Under shade in the Con-
/ ntoticut valley is being started this
l y"ar In rEa;.ner satisfactory &c al!
l interested in the new method, in that
/ farmers l.. Different towns are putting
up frames for small plots of shade
4 growing tobacco. Those who have ex-
2 pected that this spring would see many
! large farms Of this sort started will be
disappointed, but for the purpose of in
4 vestigation the scattered tents may an
swer all purposes. Not only will there
be shade growing in Windsor and other
5 towns on the western side of the Con-
} necticut valley, but the method will also
be tried east of the river, and in the
valley. lHG united states
Department of Agriculture and the ex-
pertinent station at New Haven will
] both take an interest in these expert
mental tracts, and there will be as much
information forthcoming at the end of
the season as if larger areas were Gull
tivated.
MITCHELLsON FARM SHADE.
, IL one instance, however, the new
plan will be tried in Connecticut on
large scale. This will be on the farm
! OF Ariel Nicholson at 'Tariffville. Mr..
Nicholson is a brother of Joseph C.
,, Mitchellson, of the firm of Nicholson
& Hubbard, the Kansas City dealers,
who bought the product of the Poquon-
ock experiment last season. Joseph C.
Nicholson is now in the east, and he
and his brother have been endeavoring
to- induce farmers who could afford to
risk making an experiment, to go into
shade growing this season to the extent
OF one or two acres each. Ariel Mitch
ellsor made plans to plant twelve acres
under cover. and the work of putting
up the frame is already in progress at
Tariffville; but now realizing that the
farmers are not taking hold of the
has decided to increase his planting I'M
der cover TO a total area of twenty
acres. This is the largest planting that
any single farmer will undertake to
make this year. and it seems likely that
the twenty acres which Mr. Mitchellson
will plant will be about half Of the ag-
gregate area cultivated this year under
cover.
FLOYD AND HIS ASSOCIATES.
M. L. Floyd, of Quincy, Florida, the
expert in the employ of the United
States Department of Agriculture, has
taken up his residence at the Tuxis
House in Tariffville and has an office
across the street. He has with him
two other practical shade-growers from
Florida, r. C. McDuf1ie and G. T. Nc
Ness, and the services of these practi-
cal men are at the disposal Of all the
| tobacco growers of Connecticut who
may desire advice in the introduction
of the new method.
In establishing his headquarters at
Tariffville, Mr.. Floyd has no intention
of withdrawing from the work at Po-
! quonock, where the Connecticut Tobac-
co Experiment company is continuing
its Investigations under the control of
the superintendent Of the company
John A. DuBon, and of DR. Jenkins, d.
rector of the Connecticut State expert
ment station at New Haven. Mr.
Floyd will visit Poquonock frequently,
and has chosen to make Tariffville his
headquarters because of the enterprise
of growers in Simsbury, Suffield and
Bloomfield, who have enthusiastically
+oJy ic>
five miles from Poquonock Again, as
Mr.. Floyd was at Poquonock nearly all
the season last year, the officers of the
tobacco station there had the benefit Of
his advice. and now after the expert |
ence of last year they do not require the |
help that Mr.. Floyd will give novices.
SINGLE SEASONS AID.
Neither does the department expect |
that the men who go into the business
this year under the advice of Floyd will |
need his assistance next season. In
aiding growers in different parts of the /
valley and one or two in the Housatonic /
valley, Mr.. Floyd will not only be able I
to study the new plan of cultivation on
different soils and under different con- {
dtions, but at the end of the season will I
have given instruction to men scattered .
in different localities who can in turn
in future years give their neighbors the
benefit of their experience
To the Times representative Mr..
Floyd said the other/day at Tarffville,
while we have located here in Tariff
Vile, so as to be near the bulk of the
shade-growing in Suf1ield and Bloom
field as the acreage in this section will
aggregate more than in others, we will
go anywhere in the tobacco-growing
towns to assist the farmers who want to
take up this form of cultivation. We
will serve as gladly a man who plants
one-third Of an acre as we VIII a man |
who plants twenty acres. All our plans
are made in consultation with DR.. Jen-
kins, and are officially approved by the
Connecticut Experiment station. Per-
sons desiring our assistance may either
write DIR. Jenkins at New Haven, or h
communicate with me at Tariffvlle."
MISTAKES OF LAST YEAR.
When asked as to the quality of to-
bacco raised at Poquonock last year, in {
the light of it's use this spring by the
MIR Floyd said: II i
admit that we made mistake in prim-
ing at Poquonock last year, and know 6
that it was primed too early. To guard ,
against this this year we have a man
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