The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-08-20

fsmilies the hills yielding only few
and those few are too small for the
market. If there is a section of the
country where the crop has been a
success there is going to be market
in New England this fall and winter,
In some parts of the state tomatoes
are raised by the acre and these are
also affected. The late crop has not
set and the half-grown tomatoes are
ripening as little, tough, red, knotty
balls which lack as much of juice and
favor as ball of yarn. The same
thing is true of most other varieties
of garden truck; squashes, both win
ter and summer kinds, are experience
ing the fate of Jonah's gourd; beets
are as dry as an Egyptian mummy,
and melons are stunted. Field beans
are ruined, and the set of limas is
small and unsatisfactory Almost the
sole garden vegetable that is making
any Roadway at all is the cabbage
and the carrot, both of them good
vegetables in their places, but neither
of them calculated 10 recompense the
farmer for the loss of his other crops.
Not the least unhappy feature of
this condition of things is that it is
growing worse every day. Almost
every day is marked by brisk north
west wind, which seems bent on ex-
tracing any water which may remain
in the parched soil and which pre-
vents dew at night or fog in the morn
ing. Should a copious rain occur
within a week some of the later crops
would be benefited, but the early ones
are past aid now and the only thing
the farmer has for his consolation is
an excellent hay crop which was gath
cred in good condition. The farmers
on the shore have, in addition to this,
bumper crop of salt hay, which will
enable them to sell more of their Tim
othy and herdgrass, but this is a neg
ative sort Of consolation for the loss
of their other farm crops.
The residents in the cities are going
to feel the effects of the dry weather
| until next summer, for Connecticut
farms will produce little for them to
| buy. AS has been said, butter, eggs
and milk are going up weekly, the
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the pear and apple crop will not prove
worth gathering, as the half-grown
fruit Is now dropping from the trees.
Probably the farmer will pull through
| somehow, as he always has but it is
bound to be lean year for him and
for those dependent upon him.
A prominent Hamden farmer yes
terday speaking, of the long drought
yesterday said, THE crops in Hamden
and no doubt the case is the same in
other towns, are practically ruined and
many a farmer in Hamden will feel
for five years the bad effects of the
failure of his year of toll in 1907. There
has been practically no rain in seven
weeks There was a little rain a, day
or two ago and another small amount
feel awhile before that, but 1t all was
of no consequence. The last rain did
not wet the soil half an inch deep The
ground is fairly like powder, 1t is SO
parched. 1t is a sad year for the
farming fraternity In Hamden.
The dry weather also has greatly in
jured the grass crop and owing to this
the price of milk was raised one cent
quart by the Milk Dealers associa-
ton, He added that of the dry wealth.
er continues milk would be scarce at IL
cents quart. AT present some dealers
are charging seven cents a quart ant
some eight cents quart.