The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1901-11-15
over. 1t was the principal source

of income of 1860 farms, or 67.4 per
cent of the farms growing it. 1t was
also the principal source Of income of
all the farms containing less than
three acres which raised it. or the
groups by size mentioned above, it was
respectively the principal source Of in
come of 4S5, or 91.9 per cent; 1895, or
1913 per cent; 341, or 44.8 per cent, and
IS, Or 362 per cent. 1t was thus the
principal source of income of nearly all
Of the small farms on which it was
grown. and an Incidental crop of the
largest farms.
A notable development in the pro-
duction of tobacco in Connecticut dur
ing recent years has been the enormous
increase in the use of fertilizers. The
expenditures for fertilizers for all
crops increased from $685. $40 IN 1889
to 81, O78, 24O in 1899, a gain of 1863 per
cent. Of the total amount expended
in the latter year, 428,1 70, or very
nearly 40 per cent, represents the
value Of fertilizers used on tobacco
farms. The great relative Importance
of commercial fertilizers in connection
with tobacco culture in Connecticut is
further shown by the fact that the
average expenditure per farm for such
fertilizers, in 1899, was $218 for tobacco
farms, while for all farms it was but
$40. In 1899 each farmer in the state
expended on an average ST. more for
fertilizers than he did ten years be-
FORE"
INTERESTING POINTS ABOUT A WATCH.
In chat with JeWeler Hill on the
intricaces of the modern watch, the
other day, he said: You carry in your
lower vest pocket the smallest, most
delicate machine that was ever con-
structed of the same number of parts.
About IT'S different pieces of material
enter into it's construction, and up
wards of 2,4O0 separate operations
are comprised in it's manufacture. On
this tiny instrument you depend in
some degree for nearly every action in
your everyday life. However irregular
your own habits may be, it's habits
must be unfailingly regular; and when
ever appealed to, at any hour of the
day or night, in cold or in torrid eli
mate, on the mountain top or in the
mine, it must tell the time within a
variation of fraction of second a
day, or YOU will want to know the
reason why. A watch is really one Of
the most wonderful. achievements of
human ingenuity. Some of the facts
connected with it's performance are
simply incredible, when considered in
total A blacksmith strikes several
thousand blows on the anvil in a day,
and is right glad when Sunday comes
around; but the roller jewel of a
watch makes every day, and day after
day, 1872, 900 impacts against the fork,
or 157 $50, 900 blows in year without
stop or rest, or 3, 153, 900, 900 in the
short space of 20 years. These stupefy-
ing figures are far beyond the grasp OF
our feeble intellects; but the marve
does not stop here. 1t has been eSti
mated that the power that moves the
watch is equivalent to only four times
the force used in fea's jump; conse
quently it might be called a four flea
power. One horsepower would suffice
to run 27O,OOO,O0O watches. Now the
balance wheel of watch is moved by
this four tieapOWer one and forty-thret
one hundredths inches with eacf
vibration, or 1864 miles continuously
in one year; it never stops to spit or
it's hands to catch a fresh hold! nc
it doesn' It take large can of Oil to lu
bricate the machine on it's $500 mile
run 1t just'requires One-tenth of {
drop to oil the entire watch for year,
service! But it has mighty great nee(
of that one-tenth of a drop. Consider
if by reason of thickening of the oil
or wearing out Of the oil Tor for tina
matter, by reason of running, or bicy
Gle riding, or jumping, or any form O
jar the vibrations of the balance
wheel are accelerated or retarded thre,
one-milionth of each excursion tn
watch gains or loses one second a day
or half minute month. The leaS
increase of friction on the bearings
through a change in the form of tn
tiny globules of EOil, or through tn