The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-19

of Shaded TobaecO-LoEyel Brewers
 Fifty Acres.
 Enough is as good as a feast when it comes to rain and tobacco-growers will pray for fair weather if there is any further atmospheric precipitation between this and Sunday. For several weeks there has been a shower or a drizzle nearly every day. The moist ure was welcomed until this week, but numerous raisers of the weed are or the opinion that it is the limit. Plants are well rooted, and their leaves are thriving and vigorous, and what IS needed now is a spell of dry, warm weather, string of days like Wednes- day. At this juncture the 1902 crop requires the same variety of growing weather that sweet corn requires.
 A Times representative drove through the tobacco section of East Hartford and Glastonbury, Thursday. from Willowbrook to Station 54 in South Glastonbury. He obtained the opinions of about twenty-five growers, which. in the main, coincided. In gen. eral the crop is about as far advanced as the average crop is on the 10th Of July, although in some few localities there are crops from five to ten days behind the 1901 season. There is very little "calico," but in number of places there are many cutworms due largely to the wet condition of the earth.
 The acreage in the Hockanum section is somewhat larger than year ago, perhaps about twenty or twenty-five acres The total acreage in that sec ton is probably about $50. In Glaston- bury the acreage is about the same as in 1901 and is probably about $50 orf 675.
 The largest grower in the district visited is Lowell H. Brewer of Hocka- mum. In the past few years MT. Brew CT has increased his acreage from forty to fifty. He is among the most suc- cessful and progressive growers east of the river. This season he is producing twenty-five acres of Havana seed and twenty-five of broadleaf or Connecticut seedleaf He also has an experimental bit of Florida Sumatra under shade, cheesecioth for the ceiling and burlap for walls, vertical. MT. Brewer re- gards his experiment with kind of amused interest. He is ready to oper- ate more largely with shaded tobacco next season if the experiment jusifies him in that course. He set out the Sumatra May 31. The plants vary somewhat in development, some being about ten or twelve inches in height, and some over two feet. They appear to be thriving. Yesterday afternoon MT. Brewer estimated the temperature within the quadrilateral to be about 1b or IS degrees higher than outside, and that the air was more humid, be- sides being warmer. He figured the expense of the "tent" with all the ma terials. as about $10 for an area slight ly under quarter of an acre.
 MT. Brewer begins topping his earliest Havana to-day. He will top part of his earliest broad leaf Monday or Tuesday In the past three years he has extended his land farther and farther east along Brewer street and this season he crossed Forbes street and his latest addition is a crop on ten acres of the Ashel Keeney estate on "the lane" Should his expansion continue Mir. Brewer will invade Man chester.
 Norman S. Brewer has sixteen acres of fine Havana, some of it east of High street and some reaching down towards the Oasis club house. The crop is clean and thoroughly hoed. Norman is praying for sun and if the luninary answers he will have one of the finest crops in years. He has rented seven acres on shares to James Carberry. This Is Havana and the total of twen- ty-three acres places Norman far up among raisers of Havana in the town of East Hartford
 The Foxes of Naubuc avenue have some fine tobacco Several of them transplanted from bed protected by prepared cloth, which appears to have passed the experimental stage. Captain Leonard Fox praises the cloth as par ticularly desirable in cold spring.
 James o. Griswold is the largest in- dividual producer in the town of Glas- tonbury. He raises this season about twenty acres, Connecticut seed leaf, His crop is fully as far advanced as was his 1901 crop at this time of the year.
 Jacob Bantle and his sons, Jacob, jr., and Julius, have total of about thirty acres east of Main street and on Pratt street.
 To the northeast of Messrs. Grswold and Bantle, Christopher Handel has about seventeen acres, some four of them in Connecticut seed leaf. His land lies in East Glastonbury line MT. Handel has little over half an acre of Sumatra, the tent having slop- ping walls of cheesecloth. The plants are stated to be doing well and the ex- pertinent is being examined carefully The plants are considerably higher than those on the outside. Charles w. Porter, some distance to the west, also has an area under cloth and is studying the experiment with much interest.
 The Asahel L. Keeney estate has about thirty-five acres in the open, nine of which Herbert F. Keeney is growing.
 George D. Bartlett of Nubuc is among the experimenters with the mosquito net. He has sloping walls to his high white tent and his fraction of an acre appears to be doing nicely. The first two rows are from "sea isl- and" seed procured from Congressman Henry.
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