Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1851-02-26
A CIR CULT u r A l..
ON THE CULTIVATION OF TOBACCO

Some friends in the West lately request
ed that we would give something for new
beginners on the Culiuation of Tobacco
The sorts of tobacco cultivated in the diff:
erent States are essentially different in quail
ty and in the uses to which they are appli-
ed. Perhaps no plant is more susceptible
Of the influences OF various soils and eli
males. The rich strong lat tobacco Of Vir-
gnia is made into chewing tobacco; that in
Mary land, we believe. principally Into snuff
and segars. 1t is said there are $4,000
worth of segars smoked daily in Newly ork
How much Of Virginia tobacco would be
consumed in England the Lord only knows,
were it not that she raises by an Import
duty on il some S16,OO0000 or S2000O,-
OOO year, as much as we paw annual for
our military establishments. But how much
more of it vet would be demanded, if Vir-
ginia would unite, in the establishment Of
policy, that would atlrac, millions Of to-
hacco chewers and smokers and snufeis.
not only 10 come t" our country, where
their better pay and the lower price Of the
article would enable them to consume FIVE
pounds where now they consume one, but
a policy that, when they did arrive. would
deian them in the various manulacto-
fies of the sea board Sales, instead Of
driving those who do come To the West.
TO become the makers Of tobacco! Then
all The mountain pastures and water-powers
Of Virginia would be filled with consumers
of her lowland tobacco. God intended it
should be SO when he filled her valleys with
coal and iron, and spread out pastures in her
mountains for millions Of pounds of wool.
But how perversely everything works, when
man. with his ''manv inventions" and gross
self-conceit, departs from the policy which
nature indicates? Thus we see Virginia
puming herself on what she calls '.free
rade," under which she is importing from
Eng and all the iron for her railroads, while
her iron men are being ruined.
Connecticut again produces a dark brown
thin silky leaf tobacco, fit for The wrappers
of segars, much resembling the Cuba. To-
bacco raised in this country from Cuba seed
The first year. is not much inferior in Florida,
particularly, 10 Cuba tobacco.
We have 1t not in our power to give an
essay adapted exactly to all climates and
all kinds of tobacco. The one at hand
which is most minute, and most likely TO
answer IN mos. points, the demand Of our
western friends, is the following, from that
good Planter, and still better man, the late
PETER MINOR, of Virginia. Much more
recently prize essay, and a capital one no
doubt, was written by w. w. w. BOWIE,
Esq, of Prince Georges county, whose pen
throws light on whatever it touches; bu.
that is not within our reach.
But we are forgetting our friends in the
west, who want to be hearing about tobac-
co; so we begin by expressing the persua-
sion, that failure of plants, very common
complaint, is one that ought no, TO find a
place in any planters vocabulary. Might
i, not be obviated by little extra trouble
IN various ways? As for instance, by wa
tering the beds as the streets Of a city are
walered, distributing a well prepared liquid
manure.
And again, would it not ensure more SEN
sible heat, and an earlier supply Of plants,
where they TO give black hue, to the sur