The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-09-01
NEW LIFE IN OLD FARM.
TALE FARMBB USES S0rERRTEEC
 METHODS.

Took Three Hundred Acres of WorneOut
 Land in Avon and Restored it to
 Great Fertility-Tobaccs, Fruit .antE
 Flooded Cattle.
 model tobacco farm which the officials of the Department of Agrfcui- ture at Washington think will do, rauch to solve the abandoned farm proposi- tion of New England has been evolved by Joseph w. Alsop, Yale man, rom a wornout old place in the town of Avon, says the Hartford Times.
 MT. Alsop has been out of college eight years, being 8 Sheffield 9S grad uate seven years. After spending sev- eral months abroad and four years on a Western ranch he came back to Con- necticut in 1902 and bought the old Woodford farm in Avon. It consisted of about 300 acres, situated just at the foot of Talcott Mountain on the banks of the Pennington River.
 gThe farm was badly run down The old farmhouse, which was go years old, he transformed into a comfortable home utilizing the old rooms as rhey were, only making needed addRtioms. The first floor was practically made ,in- to one big living room, the old waias- cotings and fireplace being preserved
 But 1t was out of doors that the trans formation scheme was greatest Cf the 300 acres of the farm 31 have been under cultivation to Havana seed to- bacco this year. Besides this. MT. As op has two promising fields of RaIssian vetch, indicating great acreage next year.
 The farm hands are busy just now cutting the tobacco, and Farmer Alsop is seen in the field every day with his gang of Italian laborers His help is largely composed of immigrants from the same town in Italy, and are nearly all related, so that they enjoy the life together on the big farm
 The handling of the tobacco after it is has been the. problem in which this young farmer has worked hard for several years After many experiments MT Alsop is impressed with the bonfire method of preventing pole sweat.
 He started cutting some two weeks ago and has already used b2 small fires in a shed 130 feet long. He has started a charcoal burner on his place to get the necessary fuel for future use. The sheds on this model farm are built without frames and are supported by props every 25 feet on either side. The shutters work vertically instead of horizontally as usual and are from 24 l to 30 inches wide. Direct winds are 1 broken by the vertical method and the warping of the shutters is also away 1 with.
 In his tobacco cultivation Mir, AAsop used no manure, depending on cotton seed meal and chemicals He has al- ways sown rye as a cover crop, but is trying the vetch as an experiment.
 The farm is not entirely devoted to tine cultivation of tobacco, for the Yale farmer has developed his land in other directions Fruit orchards abound near the house and his blooded cattle have excited the envy of farmers for miles around His barns have all been res built, so that his horses and cattfs have all the latest sanitary equipments.
 In his landscape gardening MT. All sops taste shows itself in the beauti- full old-fashioned garden that sur rounds the house and in spacious lawns. According to the scientific agricultursts he has set an example for rich young Americans to follow in the development of New England farms,