The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-30
IN UP-TO-DATE FIRMER.

New Haven county has suddenly become additionally famous by the ac- ton of a farmer, who owns big pro- duce farm near East Cornwall. His nearest market is the city of Water bury, whither he has been in the hao- it of transporting his goods by horse \ and wagon. Says dispatch from that city: MT. Blake has an automobile. which he loads high with vegetables and comes over the hills and through the valleys from Blake's Hill at a gait which puts a large vegetabls wagon and team of horses to shame"
 We have been expecting the arrival of the up-to-date farmer for some time but we had scarcely looked for his appearance in conservative old Connecticut until after the experiment. of putting the draught horses ont to pasture. It is not so many months ago that in driving through the country we discovered an auto moving car lev cling the tall grass. The size ,'d magnificence of the estate suggested that it was no ordinary farm. Inquiry confirmed our suspicion. It was the country home of a well known multi millionaire, but that did not remove the impression of economy made upon the mind There was no particular TO- nance in watching an extended field of grass being moved by a gasoline machine, but the picture developed quickly on the mind was that possibly farming would lose none of it's profit able features if romance was eliminat- ed. It is one thing to drive through the country and watch the sweating farmers at work and to dwell philoso- phically upon the independence of the industry, etc, etc, but few words with the farmer over a jug of cider will reveal the fact that he Is living not to work but working in order that he may live.
 l The remarkable thing about the in- troduction of the auto as a provision carrier is that a conventional farmer yielded to the opportunity it gives for him to increase his business. He has no affection for the horse because he is horse, nor can he be credited with an affection for the auto because it is an auto. He has simply sat down in his kitchen before the range fire, probably with pipe in his mouth, and esti-
 mated the chances of farming under conditions which demand prompt ser vice. Without prejudice one way or the other he has studied the problem from the point of view of the old fash lioned methods, and has concluded that If he and his family have been bene- fited as they doubtless have been by quicker means of ter-communication with adjoining towns and settlements the business of truck farming in which he is engaged would be improved by the utilization of like methods. This was his first admission to himself that the day was passing for conventional facilities, and it unquestionably led him to conclude that if he is to keep up with the procession he, too, must turn to modern facilities. Unless we deceive ourselves this explains the in-
 troduction among the farm utensils of
 Blake's homestead of an auto.
 We suspect that MT, Blake will nc
 longer feel strange in his new outfit
 when the good roads movement has
 reached it's full fruition. When Com
 missioner Macdonald has wisely ex-
 pended the four millions and a half al
 his disposal and has given the sigma
 to have the most made of them, the
 horse will be found peering disconso-
 lately over the farm fence at the rae.
 ing auto speeding towards the mar
 ket. Then will come in it's proper time
 the "Honk! Honkv of the milkmar
 pitched to 8 higher key because of the
 additional sleep gained in the early morning hours,