The Newtown bee., 1902-08-08
SOME ELEGANT TOBACCO.

Through the courtesy of w. J. Clark an enthusiastic and successful tobacco raiser, the writer was taken through some of the finest pieces of tobacco near the village of New Milford on Tuesday. MT Clark was anxious that THE BEE's representative should see that "addition" David SOule was build ing on to his tobacco barn. So taking seat in his surrey, the writer was driven to MT Clark's tobacco land near the Catholic cemetery. Here is tract of five acres of tobacco as fine as the Housatonic valley can boast. We some of the plants came up nearly to the top of Mir Clark's head-and he is a six-fOoter. The addition MT Clark is building we found to be new barn 99x26 feet. Thanks to MT Soule and his foreman, Harry Taylor, about 1000 shingle were laid on Saturday, a feat seldom eQualed. One of the good points about MT Clark's tobacco is it's evenness, and if no accident occurs he will begin the harvest in 10 days at least. MT Clark pointed out the inn mense field of tobacco of Hon Nicholas Staub, who has completed great barn nearly 15O feet long: MT Staub has a very fine crop. He next called the "1lCCA dOOC1Ulol1 Uo UuO OdO CIop OA George Ferris, who has Is acres and is easily the largest raiser in New Mil ford. He is good raiser and general ly gets high price. Taking the team again we drove to Nicholas Glennon's, where the writer saw some fine tObac- co. We first visited the tented Suma tra. It is said by good judges that MT GlennOn has the finest crop of Sumatra in the valley. He has topped the Sumatra and it is looking finely, some of the stalks standing nine feet a great growth for the 40 days since it was set out. MT Glennon has eight acres out ditiOn. From the top of the roof of MT Clark'S barn it is said one can look down upon about 75 acres of tobacco and up to date not a hail stone has fallen in this district. B. B. Marsh and Son are nice raiSerS and have some fine tobacco, E. o. Marsh having an acre under canvas. Down the turnpike is Hon J. LeROy Bucks farm, where a fine crop is always grown and Fred erick Richmond, the oldest and one of the most successful raisers in the val ley. S. J. Ferris is said to have an eX tra good piece of tobacco, this year. Across the river K. J. Warner and Thomas Young have fine crop, Mi ClldO1 II OCACy O piOSS oA OAhSS acres or more. All of these gentlemen sit up on the front seat when it comes to fine tobacco. Up the river James Marsh has an acre under canvas which is said to be very fine. One thing the writer noticed about MT Clark--he had no words of criticism of his neighbors' crops. He pointed out their good quail itieS, a characteristic too many farm CTS do not possess. When we returned by the turnpike we found Friend Glennon having, but he descended from a hay stack and. for 20 minutes talked interestingly to us about the local crops. Although the writer served a good hard apprenticeship at
 farming and was for eight years em-
 ployed on an agricultural journal he
 never before saw hay "roped up" as
 MT GlennOn's men were doing on Tues
 day: The hay was first raked into
 winrows and then heaped up. A horse
 was attached to long rope and the
 rope placed about the heap. The mer
 sat on the heap of hay and it was
 drawn in triumph to the stack, where
 it was thrown up by forks. This seem.
 ed an ingenious method, and we were
 informed it was quite generally prac ticed.