The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-05-02
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brought an average price of 81, or s1.25
instead of II cents"
SOME WHO WILL USE SHADE.
The list Of some Of those who have
. decided to grow tobacco under shade
this season is as follows Ariel Mitch
ellson TariGfville, twenty acres; George
Bartlett, Naubuc, one acre: James
Stewart, Pine Meadow, one acre; Gates
& Son, Pine Meadow, one acre; Odds &
Whipple, Suflield, six acres; George
Reed, Tariffville, one acre; William j.
Hayes Tariffville, one acre., sperry
Brothers, Marketable, north of New
Milford, one acre.
The construction of the frame for
shading the tobacco this year is differ
ent in some respects from the style of
last years frame at Poquonock, The
points of difference are these: outside
posts are not braced by other posts
placed in a slanting direction with the
cloth at an angle with the ground, but
are anchored by means of wire at
tached to stakes in the ground after
the fashion of tent-fastenings. Instead
of using stringers both ways, in the
formation of the roof or rafters, the
Ietringers run one way of the lot and in
stead OF cross stringerS strong wire is
used TO upport the cloth. And much
heavier quality of cheesecloth is used
for this shade Last year the cloth used
at Poquonock was of the same texture
as that employed in. Florida, and cost
about C ent and five-eighths year,
whereas this year the cloth recommend
oil h,,A To-, i q
the purpose is heavier cheesecloth,
called G. 3. cloth, costing three cents a
yard and made in Fall River. There
was a tedious job last year in the sew
ing of the strips of cheesecloth together,
but this year on the payment OF a small
additional amount the cloth is sewed to-
gether at the mill in Fail River, so that
it comes to the grower in widths Of six
teen and half feet.
BEST PLANS FOR THE FRAME.
] In discussing the building of the
frame, the plan used by Ariel Mitchell
son. under the direction of Mr.. Floyd,
may be taken as a model for all of the
shades arranged under one govern
ments advice. Mr.. Floyd and his two
men not only plan the shades for the
I growers, but take off their coats, go into
the field and drive stakes and do other
work of a kind in which the ineXperi-
enced shade growers seem to need in
struction
| The poles used in Connecticut are of
chestnut, about three or four inches
thick, and are cut to uniform length of
twelve feet 1t requires one hundred
and nnety-six poles to the acre, set six
teen and one-half feet apart each way.
The poles are set three feet in the
ground so that the frame Is nine feet
high. The tops of the poles are connect
ed in one direction by two-by-four
stringers, of which there are one hun
dred and eighty-six to the acre; in the
opposite direction the tops of the poles
are connected by No. IA wire, called the
cloth supporting wire Along the tops
of the stringers is stretched No. IA wire
to hold the cloth down.
ATTACHING THE CLOTH.
The cloth Is just wide enough to fill
the section and at each edge Is wrapped
about the wire along the stringer to-
gether with the edge of the cloth of the
next section, and the wrapped wire
then fastened down with a staple. CAL
vaniZed wire Is used exclusively.
Around the outside Of the frame an inch
board six inches high Is nailed and the
bottom edge of the cloth tackled to this
board against which earth is thrown to
make tight joint with the ground
against the invasion of Insects OF this
inch board eight hundred and eighty
linear feet are required to an acre. al
though of course there is saving when
the frame covers more than a single
acre.
DETAILS OF THE COST.
An outside estimate of the cost of the
frame Gncluding posts, cloth and labor) |
is three hundred and twenty-five dollars
an acre, which is estimated to be fifteen |
cents pound on the tobacco grown the |
first year. Mr.. Floyd makes the follow
ing figures as to cost for frames when
the farmers cut the lumber from their
own wood lats: One hundred and nine
ty-slx poles at ten cents, 1880 two
thousand feet Of stringers at ten dollars
per thousand, $40; total cost of poles
and stringers, per acre, $3.50, If the
lumber has to be bought outright, the
cost would be about twice this amount.
or $3.50. To this must be added posi-
bly, fifteen or twenty dollars for the
base boards
1t is expected that the chestnut poles
will last ten years The cost of the
cloth will be between one hundred and
fifty and one hundred and eighty-fve
dollars an acre, and some of the farm
ers will be able to put up their frames
and have everything complete for two
hundred and sixty to three hundred
dollars. but three hundred and twenty
five dolnrs is given by grower as the
outside price
AS to- time of planting, it is desirable
to get the plants out at time when
their growth will not be checked by cold
nights, and so early that they will not
catch the cold at the other end of the
season, but should be ripe before the
warm weather IS over, About May Is
will be regarded as an early start.
IDEAS FROM FLORIDA. II
In Florida the shade-growers try to
get out all their tobacco by May Is so
hat after that date they can give all s
heir attention to tobacco grown in the
shade Tobacco can be set in Florida
1t any time from May to July l. To- -,
)acco set June will catch the July !
aims in good time, but if the July rains
10 not come the danger at that time is
ost. A dry year is preferred to an ex-
wet year in shade growing as
n the old method. Tn the dry year, as