The Arkansas banner., 1844-03-27

will not lcak The curing process should commence in some four or five days from the Itms your tobacco is cut, if the weather is hot, or as soon as it has partially faded. This is done by raising small fires on the floor of the house. You can have four rows of fires in house the size have named, extending from one side to the other. Fire yourtobacco from three to four hours every day Sundays excepted) until the leaf IS cured after which time, 1t will only be necessary to fire It Tn damp weather or when you sec mould on the stems near the stalk. You should bulk It down in tolerably soft order, so that you can strip il in any still weather during the winter. It should be carefully bulked with the tals lapped, not laying any stalks on the inside oi the bulk. My reasons for wishing you to bulk 1t in this way, are that the leaf may not be damaged by any moisture the stalks might contain, and also 10 enable you to examine 1t successfully at all times, by pulling out from either side of the bulk Strip your tobacco in damp weather, when it will not speedily dry from exposure. Tie from four 10 six leaves in bundle, and see tia, the leaves arc pretty nearly of the sane length and quality in the same bundle. Bulk your tobacco every evening, when stripping, in the same way that you do before 1t is stripped. Let it remain in the bulk until March or April, (unless 1t should be likely to inure before that tine,) then hang it on the sticks and raise it in the house. Let It hang until the stems arc perfectly dry. Then take 1t down the first giUe, as soon as the leaf has softened little, before the stems have linbered at all The stems should 5o dry enough to break short off from one end of the leaf to the other then II IS i'll shipping order, and, if you choose, you can pack 1t Ill large double hulas and areigM them. Before yoii commence prizing, it will be best for you to sor, oYer all your good tobacco and arrange it for the hogsheads as near of the same length and quality as possible. Com- mence prizing about the middle of May, or nuy time thereafter when it may best suit your convenience, so as to put your tobacco in marke, by the middle of August. Is or der, when dry enough to insure It's keeping,
 will vary according 10 the heat or cold of
 the atmosphere. Have your hogsheads fully up to the gauge with riveied or sawed slaves, just as you like. Have them set up smooth and nice, with planed plank headings. Prize l,500 pounds in each hogshcad; sec that your tobacco is packed perfectly smooth and straight in the hogshoads.
 will try to tell you something more about curing. You should have moderate fires in every instance, bearing in mind, that all pco- pie who fire tobacco arc more inclined to have their fires too hot, than not hot enough
 If you raise your fires too hot, you will cod
 dle the tobacco, and make t worth but little
 besides, there is risk of yonr burning it.
 A yellow piehald is generally most admired
 by all merchants, though any color from a nutmeg up to bright yellow will command
 a fair price, if the quality is good in other
 respects. yo; must moi expect to cure 1t all q of the same color. It is almost impossible
 to do that; nor should you consider it oflittle value because 1t cures of different colors. Il it is uniformly good on the hill, so it will be in market, if you manage it well. You can,
 not make it good after it IS cut, it must be good before, and, then, by good management
 you may keen if so