Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1842-08-30
TOBACCO.

Tobacco and General Commission Msr
chants Of Baltimore, on the cultivation
and manufacture of tobacco.
Baltimore, lS42.
As tobacco is every year becoming
more prominent article in your State, w
deem it of so much importance, that VIZ
have had this circular printed on the sub
JScl Of its cultivation and management
and take the liberty 10 address it to you.
New ground produces the finest and
highest priced tobacco.
The plants should be set about 2 feei
y inches 10 } feet apart; which will give
them sufficient air and sun to ripen and
give the lsafa good body. 1t should be
topped as soon as it buttons, kept clear
Of suckers, and cut as soon as it is ripe
# favorable weather, it will be fit for the
house in Is TO 20 days after il is topped
When cut, let it remain until sufficiently
lank TO handle without breaking; but il
should be housed before it is sun-killed,
or too much deadened, to prevent which,
put it up in small heaps, say as much as
man can carry, with the heads to the sun
as soon as cut, and even then the top
plants may be too much deadened, unless
soon removed 10 thu house. If sun.kili.
ed, il will not cure fine.
= Ohio tobacco has the appearance gen.
orally of being too hard fred; indeed so
much 30 as TO have the flavor Of having
been baked. The Maryland system is to
fire without flues, and when the precaution
is taken TO lay planks or boards directly
over The fires, accidents seldom OCCUR
Slow fires are kept up for the first four
or five days after the house is filled, so as
te give it moderate heat throughout,un.
I'll the tobacco is generally yellow, then
the fires are generally raised or increased
so as to kill the leaf and stem in forty,
eight hours or less. When cured on the
stalk, as is done in Maryland, it can be
better assorted, or the different qualities
more readily separated, than when strip.
ped in The field and cured in the leaf :
When stripping and tying up in bundles,
it should be assorted according to the fol,
lowing classications: lst. Fine yellow
I'D. Yellow-3d. Spangled-4th. Fine
Red-5th. Good Red-6th. Brown and
common.
1t is often put up as il there were but
two or three qualities, hence, there is a
great mixture Of the several sorts, which
is very material disadvantage in selling,
as the purchaser generally values il at the
price of the most inferior in the sample
After stripping, put it in close bulk, of
two or four courses, and let it so remain
Until it loses its green favor, taking care
not 10 let it heat 10 bulk, then hang it up
Until it is perfectly air dried, or fire it
second time as dry as when first fred; and
when the weather becomes suffici cientIy
lamp or giving TO handle it without break
ng the leaf, but the stem still so dry as
% break IN all instances, in that order
axe it down and put il in large six course
,ulks, and put heavy weights on it to ex-
,lude the air. II may then be packed at
eisure, taking care to expose il 10 the air
IS little as possible when packing.
If the tobacco is long and large, the
bundles should be tied up so as to make
hree or four 10 the pound-if short, FIVE
,r six to the pound. Avoid packing the
obacco so hard as TO bruise it, which de.
,reciates it two or three dollars per huns
lred pounds. About 75n to 800 pounds
'f the fine yellow OF wraPpery led will he
'nough to put in hogsheHd. Ifloo light,
ay 45O TO 600 pounds, it also Injuries the
ale from IS cents to 81 per hundred
'ouRds. Quarter packing is the best
node, without facing.
The process for curing unfred or air
ried tobacco, is similar to the above, ex-
ept the firing, and that it must not be
o closely hung in the house. When so
ured, it IS more difficult 10 condition, so
3 10 make it keep. Than such as has been
red, but it generally sells as we'll or bet
eT.
The hogSheads should be made of good
laterials. strong, we'll hooped, fined and
allied, and should be marked with the
wnSr'S name, and numbered on The heads
nd also On the sides, across The slaves,
stwSen the head and bugle hoops, for the
sads often fall out and are lost, and II /
impossible to designate them, which Z
10 marks and numbers on the side would
snOrally Obviats, Ss we'll as prevent
luch inconvOAisHcs and vexa'iouS delay, 3
nd in some instances, perhaps ultimate S
100 of the tobacco.
4 =
Very respectfully, i