FARMER: ATTGTTST 8, 1913;
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RICHES IN NEW ENGLAND LAND
By GEORGE FRENCH of "The Independent"
When a soil expert from the Depart'
sent of Agriculture at Washington or
one of the several agricultural colleges
undertakes to advise a farmer as to
the crops that will pay him best to
raise on his farm he reports to the
owner of the land In terms of crops.
He tells one man to pull up his peach
trees and plant onions. Another he ad
vises to plant a peach orchard, or an
apple orchard, ae where the peach, will
stow the apple may be raised, and
vice veraa with reservations on ac
count of the early or late visitations
of frost He tells another man that
his best prospect is hay, and yet an
other that be should go Into the small
fruits business.
But the expert reads the soli In
terms of geologic (history. At the
coarse grains of a peculiar kind of
gravel slip gritily through his fingers
his Imagination goes backward, well
Into the abysm of time and he notes
jthe giant, prehistoric Ice-field grind Its
way across the area of New- England,
wearing Itself away as It progressed.
and depositing here and mere some
of the earth It had scraped off of some
ppostrig ridge or mountain somewhere
long itsfcentury-paced route from the
north. He sees It stealthily oome upon
a tow hill, push against it, rear itself
p Its sloping' side, creep over its crest,
carrying along "with it all of the loose
soQ and a, good part of the rocky sub
stance of the bill, to be doled out to
other, areas,' here filling a depression.
there 'leaving a pocket of earth that
may have become loosened - toy the
warmer sun's rays, and again leaving
iebnd some stubborn ledge a quantity
f sand, gravel and debris.
The expert knows that all soils are
ronneI by three major processes: Dis
integration of the foundation' rocks;
the action of the waters of the rivers
and streams, and the action of the
winds that . take land from one area
nd deposit - it miles, and scores of
miles, from its source. These three
processes are In operation all the time,
now as well -as when the land had no
tinrntn "inhabitants. The action of the
ice fields and the volcanos was for the
snoct part prehistoric, and has pracu-
mHv a a mn f am Ww TCncvlaTirl
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concerned. But the ice fields and the
'other . processes have provided New
England with a great variety of soils,
tin Rhode Island the government ex
Jperts list eleven kinds of soil. In Fly
, mouth county Massachusetts, they
:Corrud sixteen varieties. In the Nashua
' area. New Hampshire, there are eight.
The Vergennes area. In Vermont and
' New York, has nine. The Orono, in
Maine, the rebgion has eight kinds of
jeoil all of glacial origin, while the Car
j ibou region in the same state, has
! eleven. Merrimack county, - New
' Hampshire, has -seven, all also of gla
cial origin, and all derived from gran
ite. In the Connecticut "Valley one
would Imagine there would be but one
or two varieties of soil. In the lower
portion there are nine.
I have been at the jaine to call at
i tentlon to the, great variety of soil pre
vailing in all sections of New England
in order that the great diversity of
possible crops- may be realized, and to
draw attention to the manifest fact
that the New England farmer must
know Just what sort of land he has to
deal with. Becamse Jones, whose farm
lies on the elope from the valley to the
hills, is able to make money from his
apple or peach orchards It does not
follow that Smith, whose farm may be
in the valley, or under the shelter of a
sturdy ledge of rocks, ,or on the ex
posed hill crest, may safely invest ' his
i money in peaches or apples. Perhaps
! one farm Is composed of soil brought
y glaciers from the granite regions
of New Hampshire, while its neighbor
J 1h chiefly composed of erosions from
I the underlying limestone. The owners
; of these two farms must pursue dif
ferent policies, and cultivate different
crops, if they hope f.o be prosperous.
This wide deversity of soils in New
'' England explains in oart the ill suc
. cess of a proportion of the -New Eng
land farmers, as well as promises
much to the enterprising farmers of
the present and the future. There is
no typical New England soil, as there
are typical soils in the Western states,
and in all of the prairie sections. ; In
. Oregon, for example, & farmer .may
i adopt the policy and methods of the
man who has been successful, "barring
peculiarities that are apparent and
well defined. . In New England it is
extremely hazardous to attempt torely
upon the experience of the next neigh
bor. The New England soils are, most" of
-them, good mediums for fertilization;
They have the minerals, except where
lime is needed,, and are thus fitted for
the, reception and assimilation of the
humus. The. condition in New Eng
land is the reverse of the condition In
much of the West There the mineral
fundamentals are lacking and there Is
an excess of humus. The soil of Tex
as, for example, has an almost bottom
lews' deposits of humus, but lacks In
mineral.. Certain crops grow luxuri
ously there, and certain others cannot
be assimilated.
Once I was travelling about New
England with a soil expert from the
Department of Agriculture at Wash
ington, and after several days looking
.bout; and after the expert had spent
r.rol wppkn enine r about in new
England. I asked him how much more
ka land under cultivation in New
. .-FrE-land could be made to yield, with
out going to the extreme of intensive
cultivation, and he said, "Ten nunareu
w-r cent" I gasped. I looked my
doubt. Tee," he said. "I mean it. Ten
hundred per cent. This result could
only be attained, however, by the use
f the very best knowledge and meth
ods. It cannot be hoped for, here nor
elsewhere, from this generation or xar
mere. But how easy it would toe to
add a hundred per- cent, to the pro-,-e1ireness
of the New England
rarms! To double the yield of the total
&rea under the plow!'
The facts about the value and pro
ductiveness of New England land are
...iIt established. The census has
shown us that New England improved
"land can toe bought for one-quarter
the cost of improved land In the Mid
dle West and that it will produce one
third more. We are told of the total
.' product of Illinois, for example, and
! Asked to compare itvwitn the product
of New- England, are not invited to
remember that Illinois has about four
times the improve aarea or an .mew
Ks gland. ew England raises five
. times as much fruit per acre as II
Itnois. seven times the value in vegeta-
:i!er 17 Per cent- more stock per acre,
and about 20 per cent, more value in
- eertala other crops per acre.
Ne England land is valuable for a
great variety of crops, but for fruit It
surpasses any - other section of the
country, because it is composed of the
!P roper chemioals and because the cli-,
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mate is favorable for the trees and the
-10 Pve the scientific reasons
ior xne supremacy of New England as
uuu-proaucing region would necee
sitate a book. It Is a fact that New
ngiana raises better apples than oth-
er regions, excepting only a portion of
ew xorK, a small portion of Pennsyl
vania, some of Delaware and a little
section of Virginia. The chemical com
position of our hillsides gives us the
Jew England apples that have the
best flavor of any apples in the world.
-ine trees live to be a hundred years
old, bearing all the time. They grow
oig, -and produce farrels of fruit to
pecks from the trees in the famous
fruit sections of the West and North
west.
A Wisconsin man . sold his farm
there, came to- southern New Hamp
shire and bought one of the same area,
and put the difference in value in bank
some $25,000. He makes more money
now than he did in Wisconsin,- and his
plant his farm stands him only about
one-fourth as much.
This is about the relative cost of
land in the West and in New Eng
land. I mean . land that will" yield as
much or more gross Income. That is
the economic story about New Eng.
land land. - It Is a gold mine of more
value than any mine in the world. It
may be made to return great dividends
every year. It is good land, but at the
same time it Is the use that is made
of it that counts that makes the dol
lars for the owners. .'
I know a little farm that has vleldd
two workers more than S2.5oft A. vfcr
profit ,for many years. The J pitiful
thing about It is that, so far as Iknow,
not one of the other farmers in that
vicinity has learned the lesson' They
are all waiting for that land to "run
put." It Is better every vear T
properly fed and properly worked, and
" crops as certain and staple as
the output of any factorx. The own
ers never try experiments. They have
never asked the land to do what it is
hoc unea to do. They go to market
with a big two-horse waenn lnaoi
with roots every dav in the vPr th
keep, the roots in pits, for the most
part. xhey do not try to raise any
thing but roots. They have grown
rich off a little piece of farm lanfl ,
was idle" when they bought ' it, for $700.
It was an "abandoned Sarm,'i and was
abandoned Because the -owners could
not make a living off of it. Thev did
not know how to make the-land Work
ror mem.
The more one looks Into this matter
of the value of the farming lands in
New England the more he Wr&idors
that there is an acre of it forale.V But
wnen- he finds that he. can buy the best
of farming land In ONeW England for a
tnim or a quarter what is asked for
land no better in the West, he is lost in
amazement. Then he goes on to learn
that from New England land he can
get bigger crops than the Western far
mer can get more corn vto the acre,
more wheat, more potatqes, vastly
more fruit and truck and his amaze
ment grows.
This situation is not realized by the
people of New England. They still) be
lieve that this region - Is a cold and
sterile one, and that the gods have fa
vored "The West" far more than they
nave iavorea XNew England. It is a
myth, pure and simple. .There is more
money in New England- land than in
th land in any other section.; The
history of, Aroostook -county and its
potatoes ts fujj oi tne romance 0f
the land as ia the history of the- fa
mous Hood -River Valley. There are
hundreds of truck raisers in New Eng
land who make more-money than the
most fayored among the apple men of
the, West and Northwest, and get more
for their land when they sell it. Some
of the trucking land near Boston is
wortli $5,000 an acre, and . cannot be
bought for. that. There is not a .tale
of apple success in the West that -dan-
not toe matched by the experience of
apple growers in,' Massachusetts, Con
necticut, Rhode Island, New Hamp
shire, Maine and Vermont. ,
There Is much land in New England,
two or three million acres, that 56
usually - reckoned "waste" land good
for nothing but to keep off of the lists
of the assessors of taxes. Actually;
there is tout a small proportion of this
land that could not be made to pay
large dividends on a fair valuation and
the necessary amount of work and
money to make it payv Much of It is
ideally fit for a ' planted and tended
crop of white pine a crop that will
pay more than 300 per cent, profit when
it matures. The farmer with 100 fl-cres
of land that has been skinned for pa
per or matches or firewood can, if he
plants it to white pine, surely count
on a crop worth from $25,000 to $50,000,
at the end of 40 years, according to
the then price of white pine lumber.
and if he Is wise and knows how to
do it he can then take off a certain
amount every year. Then there are
sheep. They put great value into poor
land. They improve poor pastures at
the rate of something like 10 per cent.
per annum, while cattle cause dete
rioration of pasture lands. . In sheep
and reforestation there are millions of
dollars in profit for the New England
farmer. He is now afraid of both prop
ositions, with good reason. , ,
(Written by Dr. David H. Reeder, Ohl
.dago.) Scalp Diseases: Part 1. "Hair. grows
upon the body of animals, as well as
upon man, somewhat after the manner
that plants grow upon the earth. Upoa
certain portions of the body of man
kind, as the scalp of both men and
women and the faces of men, it should
be luxuriant and beautiful, an orna
ment as well as a protection. It seems
to be a law of nature that whenever a
thing outlives its usefulness it Inevi
tably decays. Whenever we find the
hair used as- nature evidently intended
it should be used for protection it is
usually agundant and rarely falls out.
What then shall we not -wear hats?
To discard them would not only be
foolish, but would subject one to the
ridicule of his fellows.
Therefore, as we have by adopting
an artificial covering for the head, re
lieved the hair of -the responsibility of
Protecting us from the elements, and
reduced its use to that of ornament
only, It finds nothing to resist, and
grows weak fom nonuee, from con
finement, from' lack, of proper care, and
having the blood supply cut off toy the
hard, . stiff brim of a hat, or,, in the
case of women, by being drawn Into a
tight coil over the head or being burn
ed to death by hoj irons a horrible
death. The scalp becomes dry and
hard, la not flexible, and the skin of
the-head adheres to the bones of the
skull, frequently " causing headaches
and an Irritable Itching. Frequently
the hair begins to fall out, and the
tonics of all the barbers in Christen
dom cannot stop it.'
The scalp must be kept loose and
flexible or the roots of the hair vege
table will not. be properly nourished
and It will first die and then fall out.
A comb is all right - with "which to
straighten the hair preparatory to
brushing, but the. brush must toe used
vigorously and daily. Not ' only must
the brush be used in order to keep a
healthy scalp In condition, tout where
the hair has already begun to fall out
the following radical treatment must
be kept up .for some, weeks, or even
months, if it is the desire to retain
the beautiful ornament with which
nature has adorned us. v
First the scalp must be relaxed and
softened. so that nutrition lhay reach
every hair, follicle without let or hin
drance, and our treatment will .toe a
combination of the hydrophatic and os-
teophatic methods of cure, which are
both successful, in most -cases, but by
combining the two there need be no
failures. Before .retiring at night is
about the only time this method can
be used by most people. N Procure from
a reliable druggist or manufacturer, a
soap that is made of the finest olive
oil and potash. A skillful ' druggist
can' make it; for you if he does not
keep it in stock. If is really, or should
be, a soft soap. ' . The hard soaps are
invariably made ' of soda Instead of
potash, and although most excellent
for the skin under ordinary' circum
stances, are not so good for the pur
poses now on hand.
CLU B NOT ES. ' '
.Dear Doctor: I am twenty-one years
old. When I" -was -four I had what we
know now to have been Infantile Par
alysis'. The left lpwer limb is smaller
than the right, tout I think no shorter.
I am lame, tout seem .to be getting bet
ter all the time. I 'mean, Walk less
lame. My spine Is curved, but not bad.
It cannot toe noticed. I am five feet,
one inch tall and weigh about one hun
dred pounds. I am nervous, but on the
FAIRFIELD WOMAN IS
ACCUSED OF THEFT OF
NEIGHBOR'S PILLOWS
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Has ' Been Arrested Before Bathers
Before Judge Wakeman Again .
For Indecent Exposure.
(By our special correspondent.)
Fairfield, Aug. 8. Mrs. Lizzie Zlm
bell was arrested yesterday afternoon
by Sheriff H. E. El wood at her home
near the Hydraulic Co. dam, charged
with theft. She is accused of stealing
pillows and a hammock off the porch
of Mrs. Katherine Goodwin, who lives
in the same neighborhood. This is not
the first time-that the accused has fal
len Into the hands of the local author
ities. A few years ago she was ar
rested for receiving stolen property.
Her two boys had taken $100 from their
aunt which they claimed that they
bad given to their mother to secrete
for them. The mother was given a fine
and Jail sentence by Judge Bacon
Wakeman. She appealed to the upper
court where the sentence was' remit
ted. Moth of her 'boys were committed
to the reform school. . . "
Louis Bates, 17;' Julius Kulla, 17, and
John Tlovadar,' 15, arrested on Sunday
on the technical charge of Indecent ex
posure, for bathing" in the waters near
the "Tin", toridge, appeared before
Judge Wakeman Wednesday afternoon
and admitted their guilt. The court
tried to be lenient with the youths and
only fined them, the costs of the case,
which in each instance amounted .to
$8.66. One of the young men. paid his
fine, another part of his ' with promise
to pay the remainder when he could
get the funds, while the third stated
that be had. not the means and did not
know where he could get it. The court
kindly excused the. youth.
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whole my general health Is quite good.
Live on a farm and do all kinds of
Postmaster Antoine Delorla, 3ard
ner, Mich., speaks for the guidance of
those troubled with kidney and blad
der irregularities, and says "From my
own experience I can recommend Fo
ley Kidney Pills. My father also was
cured of kidney 'disease, and many
neighbors were cured by Foley Kidney
Pills." Adv. .
-TODAY IS PUGILISTIC ANNALS.
1909 Stanley Ketchel knocked out
Mose Lafontise in 24th round at Butte,
Mont. This was the first tim the
future middleweight champion had
ever fought a professional, and the
result was a great surprise to Lafon
tise, who was ,a rugged and clever
battler. Mose's . graft was to travel
about the West, posing aa a novice at
the fighting game, -and arranging
matches with ambitious amateurs. By
betting on himself he made" a good
living, but he struck a snag when he
took on the Montana cowboy. All of
Mose's science and skill couldn't dis
courage Ketchel, who kept right on
coming until finally a wild and wicked
lunge stretched out the ''ringer" for
the count.
1906 Ray Bronson "and Young
Sharkey fought 10-round draw at
TJrbana, 111.
1912 Tommy Burns knocked out
Joe Richards in 6th round a.tt Saska
toon, Sask. , , .
work. Do you think there is any cure
or help for. me? But what I want to
know is thie:v If I should marry and
have children is there any possibility
that because of my . condition they
would be deformed in any- way?,
shall wait an' early reply.
; C. C.
There is no reason why almost, if not
entire recovery from the, effects of the
Infantile Paralysis may not be ob
tained, seeing that you are improving
continually. . Such continued progress
will he very much increased by -4he Use
of. systematic massage to Uie affected
limb. This should be done . regularly
three times daily -If possible for ten
minutes at a time and a suitable oint
ment should be uged, such as the herb
ointment sometimes referred to m
these columns. The effects of this dis
ease are not transmitted to children.
The only possible way in which the
latter could be affected wouldV be - as
the result of difficult childbirth result
ing ' from change in the shape of the
pelvis which have followed the dietor
tion of the spins. Whether or, not this
Is present to such a degree as is men
tioned could only toe told on personal
examination, tout it probably will not
toe. Valuable information on the sub
ject is given in the Home Health Club
Book, Vol. 2, which would toe "jof great
help to you. Change in the diet would
have no immediate influence on the
condition, except that a .very nutri
tious one would be best adapted to the
most prompt recovery. Milk and "eggs
should form, a large part of it. Baths
would not be particularly indicated.
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Dear Doctor: Have had stomach'
trouble for thre months and doctored
with norelief. Have severe headaches.
Some days vomit, other days not at
all. Very sick, at stomach. Feel so
weak in " stomach that can hardly
stand up at times. Get awful hungry,
but when I eat, I bloat, and seems to
be much wind in stomach. Very tlyn.
What can I take to add flesh?
s; p.
You cannot expect to take on flesh
and kep it until your digestion ' is per
fect. The cause must first be found
before you can cure the stomach and
have good digestion. The fact that
you,- have severe headaches should di
rect you to a skilful occulist. Eye
strain frequently causes just such dif
ficulties as you experience. Similar
troubles arise from worms, tape worm,
from overeating, from toad teeth, im
proper eating, etc. After proving that
none of these conditions exist, write
me again and I will then tell you how
to treat yourself through diet, exer
cise, etc., but you must state your age,
height, weight and habits of eating
and drinking. ' ",
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SEE LYl'OItn BROTHERS TRY
E East Side and West End Y
It Seems as Though - .
prices were shrinking every week , at
Radford B. Smith's. Each announce
ment -of the Saturday Sale makes a
new record for low prices. See what
children's tents, ladles' feilk gloves.
Windsor ties, neckwear, handker
chiefs, sheets, waterwings , battery
testers, and many other useful ..ar
ticles can be bought for to-morrow.
Sun rises tomorrow 4:55 a. m.
Sun seta today...;.. 7:02 p. m.
High water ............. 3:48 p. m.
Moon rises 10:15 . p. m.
Low water .......10:40 p. m.
White," cardinal, gray i and maroon
are the preferred- colors for fall
sweaters.
A splendid -program was rendered at
the concert 'of the Ladies Society of
the Greenfield Hill Congregational
church Wednesday evening. The 200
or more present .were well, repaid for
their attendance, for the artists ren
dered a nexcellent concert. The com
mittee in charge included Mrs. Simeon
Ptase, Miss A. Maria Wakeman and
Miss Georgia Banks, to whom is due
a great deal of the success of the af
fair. - , , - -
Nightly the crowds still go Ho the
fair of the Fairfield firemen. The ex
cellent dancing floor and the special
entertainment features offered for each
evening tend to bring the gathering
to this show place. - The managers re
port that all the booths have been w'
patronized - and that they are more
than' pleased with the efforts the" peo
pie of the town have made in .their be-
half. With the probable conclusion of
the fair tomorrow-, evening, the com
mlttees expect that the finances will
show that the fair has "made the best
returns of the. twenty annuals..
Two auto Tus loads ' of ydung folks
from Norwalk ewooped'down upon the
Boyle casino, Wednesday evening.
making merry at that place. '
It is stated that Warren CR. Briggs,
the architect, of Bridgeport, will bring
suit against the town to collect the
$1,800 which he claims is due him fo:
the drawing of the plans for the new
Sherman school. Mr. Briggs . has pre
sented his -bill to the joint school
board. When the town was consider
ing a new school Mr. iBriggs was en
gaged to draw , up the plans. He sub
mitted designs and also made many
changes in : the plans submitted. He
had been accepted toy the committee
as their- architects The committee was
all at sea about the school until Sam
uel Wheeler stepped in and decides
matters. This left Mr. Briggs . outside.
Rev. Allen E. Beeman of the school
board is advertising for bids for the
carrying of school children from the
various points in town. Mids must toe
submitted on or before Aug. 15.
Miss Dorothy Stanton of Bridgeport
was the hostess yesterday afternoon
at the tea at the Tea Time Tavern un
der the auspices of the Thimble club.
Misses Ruth and Olive Alexander of
New York are the guests of their aunt.
Mrs. B. S. Bulkley.
-A Mr. Marvin of Norwalk has pur
chased the Walter Merwin place in
Merwirr"s lane. J '
Miss Hehrietta Wyrtzen and Miss
Anna Thorpe have returned from
trip to the New oYrk lakes and the
Berkshires.
A concert will be given this- evening
at the Fairfield Congregational church
by the members of the Christian En
deavor society of Greens Farms. Songs,
recitations and musical selections will
make up the program. The, concert
will start at 8 o'clock. ': .
IRELAND'S IREYFTJS CASK,
, : (New York World.) - '.
In June, 1907, certain crown jewels,
including the . King's regalia of the
Order of St. Patrick, were stolen from
Dublin Castle. Sir Arthur Vicars, who
succeeded Sir - Bernard Burke, of
"Burke's ' Peerage" fame, as Ulster
King-at-Arms, was their custodian,
British justice- has found its way to
satisfy Vicars's urgings that the truth
about the theft be made public.
An inquiry was begun in February,
1908, but Sir Arthur resigned from the
commission and refused to appear as
witness when he learned that Its
sessions would' not be public nor its
inquests thorough. He was forced to
resign office for negligence. The peo
ple regarded him as a, capegoat. Re
ports appear from time to time that
the jewels are- pawned, that they have
been returned, and so on; but no offi
cial statement has been made.
Last May Sir Arthur won a libel ver
diet of $25,000 from a London weekly
which stated that he had "shielded
lady at the expense of his own repu
tation."- This court victory is all the
vindication he has been able to se
cure. - '
The case was revived last month,
when Filson- Young printed in the
London Outlook that Sir Arthur was
victimized ,by a "group of young- gen
tlemen adventurers of a very unpleas
ant tvoe. who came to him with per
fectly srood Introductions" and held
high revel in hie office, with some de
tails as to duplicate keys. Sir Arthur's
counsel deny the whole story. They
add that the "facts wouia nave reen
accorded the public and Judicial in
quiry which he asked for and is still
anxious to obtain."
In the face of such a challenge the
British Government and administra
tion of Justice will probably cantinue
to Ignore a theft from the nation; and
no plausible reason for the neglect has
been suggested except ' fear thta the
truth might uncover plotters too
highly placed. '-
SCALP SPECIALIST
Special Treatment for -. Oily Hair
Manicuring
HARRIET E. S It IOIWOOD,
4U Security Building.
1111 Main St. Phone 1373. S$7 tf
It's the grand summing up and
boiling down the grand wind-up
ot- our summer clothing sales.
Still two months of weather when this1 cloth
ing will be comfortable for daily wear, but
as our fall stock is coming in we need the
room, so all our summer wearables are to
have their walking ticket.
LOOK AT ' rii-iF,,.in . , b-b ici;' w
- CU'I'l'INGS
TEN HOHAIR SUITS
Were $18.00 and $20.00
NOW
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TWELVE PALM BEACH-SUITS
Were $10.00
NOW -V. ... .... .
FIFTY FANCY SUITS '
Were $12.00 $15.00, $16.50
NOW . .. . . v. . ;
TWENTY-FIVE FANCY SUITS
Were $18,00, $20.00
NOW . , .......... . . .
FORTY FANCY SUITS '
Were $20.00, $22.00
NOW . ....... .-.......-.... U.
TWENTY FANCY SUITS
Were $25.00 jbo $30.00
NOW
$5.00, $6.00
FLANNEL TROUSERS
now .....
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TOBACCO GROWERS.
The total number of Connecticut to
bacco growers is more than 600, but
the great majority cultivate only a
small acreage from two to forty acres
each. The following are the Connec
ticut growers who cultivate forty acres
or more:
George M. Grant. East Windsor, SO.
James Price, East Windsor, 65.
W. J. Hayes, Tariffville, 90.
B. H. Sloane, Broad Brook. 75.
Griffln-Neuberger Tobacco Company,
North Bloomfleld, 300.
P. R. and R. M. Goodrich, Portland,
52.
J. B. Stuart, Windsor, 165.
S. B. Warner, Windsor, 40.
A. S. Bidwell, East Hartford, 50.
F. J. Burnham estate, East Hart
ford, 40.
N. Howard Brewer, Hockanum, 70.
A. F. Burnham, South Windsor, 40.
Clark Brothers, Windsor, 75.
A. T. Patterson, Slmsbury, 4 0.
F. H. Thrall, Windsor. 125.
Keiser-Rossburg Plantation Com
pany, East Windsor' Hill, 175.
Elbert Parson, Ellington, 40. -Simon
F. Miskell, Broad Brook, 40.
J. D. Abbey, Portland, 150.
Alliso.n Manchester, Barkhamsted,
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Connecticut Tobacco Corporation,
Tariffville, Windsor and Silver Lane,
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Windsor Tobacco Corporation,
Windsor, 160.
Olds, Whipple & Finney, Windsor,
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George MitcbeIson, North Bloom
field. 60.
-.. H. T. Clark, South Glastonbury, 41
P. H. Keefe, Bloomfleld, 120.
, E. S. Seymour, Suffield, 40.
R. C. Lasbury, Broad Brook, 200.
W. N. Pinney, Ellington, 55.
Five of the biggest tobacco grow
ing corporations in the state are capi
talized as follows:
Connecticut Tobacco Corporation,
$1,000,000.
Griffin-Neuberger Tobacco Com
pany, $300,000.
Cuban-Connecticut Tobacco Com
pany, $300,000.
Kaiser-Brasberg Tobacco Company,
$150,000.
Windsor Tobacco Corporation,
$100,000.
WHY GIRIiS LEAVE SCHOOL.
Probably the treatises on sociology
which one studies in college would say
lt was because their parents wanted
the money the child could earn. But
are Father and Mother smart enough
to get possession oCanv larce Dart
of the daughter's pay envelope?
ms United States government re
cently Issued a pamphlet dealing with
this subject. According to this study
the desire of parents for the earnings
did not flgura aa the cause so- roucft
as the fact that the girls are tired of
school.
Pocket money Is quite as attractive
to the girl as to the boy. The latter ,
enjoys being able to take his girl ;
friends on automobile rides, and li-
ing them up against the soda foun
tain. Similarly to the young girl pocket
money Is the raw material of clothe3. :
Clothes are the arsenal of the cam-.
paign for a bean. The prevailing home
sentiment is that last year's school ,
dress, with a little modernization, will
do very well for the coming season.
She sees much better'than Mother th
futility of any such temporiclir?
course. ' Nothing will give her hrr
true social position butvseverpj v
frocks. Then there are millinery an
other incidentals.
Whenever she- mentions these v!t.-'l
truths, Mother refers to disagreeable
subjects like Dad's life insurance pol
icy. Dad looks worried and grows
more absorbed in the newspaper.
What can an ambitious girl do, but
get out In the real world, away from
bookland and its melancholy shadows,
and hustle for her own pocket money?'
It is of course needless to analyze
or refute this point of view. The
girl who quits school too soon is thS
girl who gets married too soon, who
is driven into the factory to help her,
husband. Meanwhile the little one.
grow" away from home influence like
littl4 weeds. .
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