The age-herald., 1902-03-30

From the New York Times.
 New Haven.-So unexpectedly success full were the experiments undertaken last summer in this state in the scientific raising of leaf tobacco by the Connecticut Agricultural Station, under the auspices of the National Government that this coming season which Is about to begin, will see much fuller and wider expert ment Where fifty acres were under artificial cultivation last year fully one
 thousand will follow suit this summer in
 all parts of the state and In southern Massachusetts For this reason the to-
 bacco growing season of 1902, which opens in about a week, will be the most inter
 esting and perhaps the most valuable in the history of tobacco farming in New England.
 Director Jenkins of the Connecticut Agricultural Station in this city, who
 has conducted the experiments, says, in
 discussing the merits and possibilities of further practical tests. of the advantage
 of shade-grown tobacco.
 "Our experiments last year were
 planned and carried out mainly for the
 
 the state. However promising were the results, 1t can hardly be expected that the growing of the Sumatra leaf in this state can be made a complete success without some years of experience and in- telligent experiment We are, therefore, looking forward to the coming summer as the first broadly practical test which we have yet made.
 The first experiment in raising tobacco r@f hA G,,x .N~a kxrvNo tn, fTAA NarfI rCz made by the Connecticut station in 1900, and 1t was the success Of the first sea- sons work that induced some twenty Connecticut farmers to repeat the ex- pertinent on their own farms in 1901. Last year the total area covered by tents was twenty acres. So promising were last years results that fully 1000 acres will be treated in the new way this year in this State, and a beginning will be made along the borders of the Connecticut river in Southern Massachusetts.
 Up to this time the tobacco farming
 industry in this state. which has steadily increased in the Connecticut and Housa-
 tonic River Valleys, has been conducted
 on the same lines as corn and ordinary farm products. Though the result has been the production of a Connecticut wrapper leaf that immediately found it's place in the markets the possibilities of destruction by storm heat or blight have annually made the industry risky. Hail | storms, the worst enemy of the tobacco | growers in this latitude, have annually | ruined many rich crops, while insects and | willing under abnormally hot suns have | regularly made tobacco raising one of the | most uncertain undertakings of the farm | CT. As a result, in spite of the rich re- turns on a prosperous year, hardly more
 than twentieth of the tobacco lands of | the State have yet been cultivated. It was to combat the peculiar difficulties of | this climate and to offer an almost cer- | tain means of protecting and enriching the crops that the State Agricultural Station took up these experiments two years ago. The success of the experi- ment has been immediate, and has led already to a widespread employment of
 the peculiar methods of the station.
 The main feature of the experiments
 thus far conducted has been the covering
 of the plant with cheesecloth tents, for protection against hail. sun, and insight blight Wooden frames are erected about nine feet high, and covered on top and sides with thin cheesecloth, each tent having door at either end It has been proved that this insures protection against insects, hail, drought, high winds and wilting suns. It insures a moist and warm climate for the plants, and an ever | temperature and barometric pressure l The immediate result of the 1900 expert ments were the growing of the thinner | leaf much sounder and more silky, all o1 | which characteristics were much desired | by the manufacturers. The most severe | summer windstorm ever known in the | Connecticut Valley two years ago put the | shade to a severe test. but did no serious | damage to it, and did not injure the crop | in the least.
 Not only did the experiment introduce shade tents, but a new method of picking and curing was tried. which was most all the organizations of his State will be
 invited to elect a Democratic Governor and he feels confident that the Republi- cans will be treated to a surprise. There has been, he claims. very decided change of sentiment among certain Re- publicans, who for financial reasons abandoned the Democracy. They now have a grievance against the Republicans in the State who have passed laws par ticularly obnoxious to them As these