Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1853-07-28
From the Maryland Republican.
TORACCO

IOBACCO.
Every person of experience in growing
tobacco, knows tina. it is crop, which re.
quires considerable amour, of sound iudg.
ment successfully to cultivate. The taxes
upon tina, judgmen. are not temporary
they begin with the selection of seed and
ground most suitable for the production o
an sbundan. supply of early plants, and
continue until the crop is picked and ready
for market. Tobacco may be hung too
close; i, may be handled when not In pro-
per condition it may be badly assorted
when stripped; il may be packed when too
wet or TOO dry, and too little or too much
may be put into a hogshead in packing
To prevent The occurrence of any one or
all of those evils, which ere eagerly caught
o, by purchasers, tina, they may obtain il
at reduced price, it is essential that con-
slant activity and vigilance should be COM
bned with judgment.
The planter should have knowledge OF
The various modes Of selling; perfect &C.
ousn,ance with prices Of different, markets
and other minuti9 Of much consequence 10
him. He should attend to The remarks, for
several successive years of his commission
merchants, reminding him Of the Average
weights of his hogsheads having been too
light, and Of his tobacco in consequence
having been annually sold for less than its
full value,
When hogshead weighs less than 700
pounds il is too light, and the buyers claim
deduction of % cents on every hundred
pounds. This is heavy loss to the plan
Ter, blu, it is allowed by the commission
merchants, according to rule adopted by
all the buyers and sellers.
Suppose two planters make 2,4OO pounds
Of tobacco equal in quality and worth the
same price in market, say for example. six
dollars per hundred, and that one of them
packs his tobacco in three hogsheads and the
other in four, which Of the two nets the
mos. by his crop, after paying the same
sum for The material Of which each hogs
head is made, the same sum for setting ur
each hogshead, and the same sum for the
freigh, and commission.
hhds. Tobacco each containing 800 lbs.
at Sc per hundred is sl44.OC
Deduct cost of materials for each
hid. $500
Deduct cost of setting up each at 25, IS
Deduct cost of transportation to
market, 81 per hid. 800
Deduct cost of commission for SELL
ing 81, 3.OO 9.E
s134.a;
hhds. Tobacco, each containing 600 lbs
at Sc per hundred, Sl44.O(
Deduct IS cts. per hundred for be-
ing under 700 lbs. $500
Deduct materials for each hid. 81, 400
Deduct setting up each hid. IS cts. LOO
Deduct freight to market 81 each, 400
Deduct commission for selling each 400 $500
sla5.ot
Loss to the planter who uses i! hoqsheads--Q q!
According to the seventh census, Mary
land produces annually 81 ,407, 497 pounds
Of Tobacco if only one fourth Of this a
noun, should be annually packed too light
j, is mantle. By the calculation above, en-
bracipg the several additional expenses ant
deduction on the price Of the tobacco il
each hngshead, the loss, in the aggregate, il
immense. Tha. the planters may have 'h'
bogshead made of sufficient dimensions t.
receive from 500 to 1000 pounds wllhou
injury to the tobacco, there is law for re
gulalng them, and we herewith give cop.
IF The frs, section of ii.
.sBe it enacted BY the General Assembly G
Maryland, That hereafter no tobacco shall b
passed, or accounted lawful tobacco, unless tn
same shall be packed in hogsheads not exceedin
fifty inches in the length of the slaves, and sevent
six inches in the whole diameter within the stave:
at the cross and bilge, and the owner of the te
bacco packed in any hogshead of greater dinner
sons shall repack the same in sizeable hogshead
as hereinbefore expressed and directed, at h
own expense, before the same shall be passed.
FARADY ON TABLE MOVING.
Prof. Farsdsy, of London, the celebrate
electrician, has been experimenting on tabI
turning, ''no', Che says) that it was necesss