128 CONFERENCE ON MILK PROBLEMS 



Providence and Boston on the East. Her Southern coast, 

 along Long Island Sound is largely devoted to truck garden- 

 ing, while summer cottages practically line the shore. Her 

 valleys are dotted with large and prosperous manufacturing 

 towns, giving steady employment to thousands of well paid 

 and thrifty laborers. Her hill-tops are within easy riding 

 distance by rail or auto from some large city and are yearly 

 attracting more and more people from the urban districts to 

 come out and buy homes and farms and enjoy the beautiful 

 scenery, the pure air, the home grown vegetables and fruits, and 

 the hunting and fishing for which our back towns are noted. 



The "Nutmeg State" is noted far and wide as a manufac- 

 turing state but no sweeter grass grows than is found on our 

 Litchfield County hills and in the upper valleys of the Con- 

 necticut and Housatonic Rivers a grade of tobacco is raised 

 which for cigar wrappers is unsurpassed. Connecticut is also 

 also a wonderful corn growing state as she holds the record 

 for the highest yield for a single acre and also for the greatest 

 average production per acre of any state in the union. 



The census bulletins that have been published indicate very 

 clearly that our urban population is rapidly increasing while 

 our agricultural towns show an almost uniform loss of popu- 

 lation. In other words the consumers of agricultural products 

 are increasing while the number of producers and the amount 

 produced are as steadily decreasing. 



The average Connecticut farmer is extremely fortunate 

 in being located within easy driving distance of a good home 

 market in some one or more large manufacturing town or city 

 where everything grown, or produced on the farm, may be 

 sold at good prices. 



The increasing local demands of the home markets for milk 

 and the products of milk are gradually absorbing the milk 

 from those sections of the state where formerly it was shipped 

 either to New York, Providence or Boston. 



From the Eastern part of the state considerable quantities 

 of milk are daily shipped to Providence and Boston; Spring- 

 field takes from the Northern part while a large amount is 

 shipped to New York by the New York, New Haven and Hart- 

 ford Railroad from the Western part. 



We have long known that typhoid fever is occasionally dis- 



