Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-05
NORWICH BULLETIN. THuRsDAx FEBRUARY 3, 1al4
WANTS 75 ACRES IN CUCUMBERS
New York Company Will Establish Saltmg Station Yantic if Farmers Will Plant Requisite Amount-Stafford Springs Ready to Take Up the Plan.

put up the salting station. MT. Sher- wood said he would hardly advise the average farmer to plant more than an acre of cucumbers unless he had regiment to do the picking. The seed the company furnishes makes heavy, pulpy cucumbers that weigh something more than 50 pounds to the bushel-
 An assurance that the company was responsible, he said that they were rated at from s1o,ooo to s2o,ooo and could refer to any farming section where they had done business.
 General Freight Agent D. T. Law renee of the Central Vermont railroad said that a number of places along the line of the railroad seemed adapted to raising cucuTnbers. but that Yantic had been given the first chance at the proposition because of the way the Yantic people had taken hold of it. He stated to the audience that the propo- sition appealed to him because 1t only amounted to the farmer contributing an acre of land for year to see how the plan worked out, and wherever else it had ben tried the plants had been enlarged and the farmers had kept on growing oucumbers.
 Traveling Freight Agent E. H. Tay- Tor of Boston spoke of the success of pickle salting stations in the Deerfield valley, which had been running for number of years and said they ship ped a lot of pickles.
 c. Warren Davis Favors Plan.
 G. Warren Davis was called upon, and spoke of his knowledge that cu- cumbers would grow in New London county, and said he believed there were good areas around Yantic, to- wards Fitchville, Franklin and Leb- anon, which could be utilized for cu- cumbers. He brought out the point that the pickle picking season is from about August 5 to- frost time, and would not interfere with the hay sea son. MT. Davis spoke also of his hope some time to see a canning factory in this vicinity.
 MT. Davis mentioned a number of points that he considered were in fav- or of this plan.
 Woodbury O. Rogers spoke along the line of spraying the cucumber vines, and said he considered the re- suits from an acre of cucumbers as in- dicated by MT. Sherwood were good, and he hoped enough of the farmers would subscribe to the plan, and for himself he would subscribe to plant hal an acre in cucumbers.
 One man in the audience spoke of the good crops of pickles that could be raised in the Colchester and Leba- ncn districts but said he thought the price of S15 per ton would be a small return.
 Stafford Springs Ready. J. Parkhurst, station agent of the road at Stafford Springs, asked if the l Sherwood company would build Q salt ing station at any other point on the road if the necessary acreage were pledged.
 MT. Sherwood replied that they would, and MT. Parkhurst responded that Stafford Springs was ready with the land and all the other things neces- sary to locate a station there. President Sherwood said after the meeting that the tanks for the salting station would be several in number ] and would be eight feet tall and fl 1 feet in diameter. They would be To- cated somewhere along the railroad | track where there was a spot accessi- ble for the farmers to drive in to for l delivery.