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- ling 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 walked through some of the rows, and some of the plants came up nearly to a Six-fOoter. The addition MT Clark is building we found to be a new barn 98x26 feet. Thanks to MT SOule and his foreman, Harry Taylor, about 28,OOO shingle were laid on Saturday, a feat seldom equaled. One of the good points about Mir 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 im- mense> field of tobacco of Hon Nicholas Staub, who has completed a great barn nearly 15O feet long. Mir Staub has very fine crop, He next called the writer's attention to the great crop of George Ferris, who has Is acres and is easily the largest raiser in New Mil ford. He is a 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 side the tent and it is in A No. con- 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 hail stone has fallen in this district. B. B. Marsh fine tobacco, B. O. Marsh having an acre under canvas. Down the turnpike is Hon J. LeROy Bucks farm, where 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 B. J. Warner and Thomas Young have fine crop, Mi chael Feeney fine piece Of three 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 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 wal 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.