Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1842-08-23
TOBACCO,

Letter from John Sullivan and Son,
Tobacco and General Commission MSr-
chants Of Baltimore, on tho cultivation
and meuufacturs OF tobacco.
Baltimore, lSi2.
As tobacco is every year becoming a
more prominent article in your State, we !
deem it Of so much importance, that we
have had this citcular printed on the Sub
iect of is cultivation and management,
and take the liberty In address il to you.
New ground produces the finest and
highest priced tobacco.
The plants should be set about = tee'
o inches TO feet apart; which will give
| them sufficient air and sun to ripen and
give the leaf good body. 1t should be
topped as soon as it buttons, kept clear
of suckers, and cut as Soon as il is ripe
| # favorable weather, it will be fit tor the
house in Is to 90 days after il is topped.
When cut. let it remain until sufficiently
lank 10 handle without breaking; but Il
should be housed before it is sun-killed'
or too much deadencd, to prevent which,
put it up in small heaps, say as much as
man can carry, with the heads 70 the sun
as soon as cut, and even then the top
plants nav be too much deadened, unless
soon removed to thu house. 1t Sun'kisi-
ed, il vii! not cure fine.
Ohio tobacco has the appearance gen
+ orally Of being too hard fred; indeed so
nuch 40 as 10 have the flavor OF having
been baked. The Maryland system is to
Are without Aues, and when tho precaution
is taken to lay planks or boards directly
: ovcr 1he fires. accidents seldom occult
Slow frcs are kept up Cor the ii'st four
II or five days after the house is filled, SO as
r to rive il a moderate heat throug ghous,un'
l. I'll the tobacco is generally yellow, then
C tho fires are generally raised or Increased
Or an az 10 kill The leaf and stem in forty
eicbt hours or less. When cured on the
stalk, as is done in Maryland, ii can be
better assorted, or the different qualities
D. more readily separated, than when strip
N ned in the field and cured in the Leaf
>. When stripping and tying up in bundles
!. if should be assorted according TO the iol
lowing classifcatons: ist. Fine yellow
ID. Yellow-3d Spangled--4th, Fine
Red-5,h. Good Red--6th, Brown ant
common.
V It is often put up as il there were bu
ne two or three qualities, hence. there is
a. preat mixture Of the several sorts, whicI
eli = a very material disadvantage in selling
or 40 'e purchaser generally values it al tn
70 nr;ce { the most inferior in the sample
gc Arle, sn :roing, put it in close bulk, q
two or four courses, and let it SO renal
until it loses iL1 green iavor' taxing car
), not ~ ,o LET il heat il bulk, then hang it u
=, until il is perfectly air dried or fro It.
IN second tims as dry as Nhsn first fired; an
when the weather beco.Nea suhci eht,
damn Or giving to handle it r7ithou' oreat
to ing the leaf, but the stem etiIl SO dfy
m to break IN all instances, in THAI otot o
= " rake it down and put tin large SIX cou'S
o. bulks, and put heavy weights on 1t to e.
Dir clude the air It may then be packed
ri leisure, taking care to expose It to the a
,ns as little as possible when packing.
i'll If the tobacco is long and large, IN
''t bnndles- should be tied up so as TO max
ol three or tour to the poand-if Short nv
ish or six TO the pound Avoid packing II
in tobacco 90 hard as to bfuise it. which d
nil nrccia,ss II two or three dollars per hui
5rcd mounds. About 750to 500 poun'
CIR oflhe fine yellow or wrAPpory led will I
enough TO put in a hogshead, II 100 'gi
say 45O to 600 pounds, il alsolnlures, u
soIe I from rs cents to 81 per hnndr
ro mounds. Quarter packing is the be
lion mode, without facing.
9;n The process for curing untlrod or
'f dried tobacco, is similar to the aOoVe' {
= cen, the firing, and that IL must not
,,sJ 90 CLOSELY hung in the.house. Wlen
w. cured, it IS more difficult to condition
.,,,A os 10 make it keep. than such as has bt
,;nr @ fired bu, it generally sells as we'll or
1O. ,uo" The bousbesds should be made Of g
;u ;ua; malerials. strong, well hooped, lined
"Ln. liz nailed. and should be marked WIN
Nd owusr's name, and numbered on Inc ne
w y - and also on the sides, across the sta
- ~" b.twoep the head and bugle hoops, Tor
80 ha,ds often fall out and are lost, an
80 80 is impossihls to designate them, W
80. the marks and numbers on the SIDE W
Iid.,s Qenarally obvia's. +" well as pre-
"a much Inconvenience and vSxatiouS a
and in some instances, perhaps uI'i'
emsn Loss Of the tObScco.
,vills
n, Ell Very respectfully,
(: and Your obsjisnt servants,
-YOIIN SIIIIIVAN g. so