The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-04-07
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oards of SIX or elSut ledNeSi MI"PP'nS
;ahtlv and neatly with the tip Of the
Ieaf used as tie, SO as to form q head
of one and halt to two inches in length
Care should be had 20 make the bundles
So uniform in size and color as possible,
and it adds to the beauty of sample oy
which it is to be sold When The days
work is done, let the tobacco. neatly !
pressed through the hands, be put IN
winrow, as it is termed, viz: LAID straight
in q bulk or pile of sufficient length to
hold the DAYS or two days WORK, apo
onlv the width of one bundle and halt,
reversing each course so as to have the
hends of bundles out-here it may remain
un,;l the stripping season is over, or the
crou stripped The first good drying
smell of Eweatber after stripping, put the
smootbest and smallest sticks upon which
the tobacco was hung, and hang up the
tobacco to dry, carefully shaking it out
when hung, so as to, secure q uniform
driving. When the weather again be-
comes moist enough to bring the tobacco
in case, take it down and carefully bulk
Saway, DIS before directed, only taking
more care to straighten the bundles, and
make the bulk much wider. This is done
by tapping the bundles over each course,
similar to shingling a roof, the bnlker
having his knees upon the bulk, carefully
LAYING down the tobacco as 1t IS straight
ened and handed him. When the bulk
is finished, weigh it down heavily with
logs or some heavy weight. Care must
be taken that the tobacco does not i'm
bibe too much moisture, or get too high
in case before it is bulked, as it will in
lure. So soon as the tobacco becomes
soft enough to handle without breaking,
it may be put in bulk and should the
stems break little under the pressure
of the bulkers knee, no material damage
will be done, provided the leaf does not
erumble A little attention will soon
teach the most ignorant the proper order
for safe keeping. The tobacco will be
safe in bulk, and will wais the. planter
convenience to prize it in hogsheads.
In pricing, the difierentqualities should
not be mixed, and if the planter has been
careful to. keep them separated, no
trouble will be had in asserting when
ready,to prize. In packing in the hogs
heads care should be taken to have every
bundle straight, and every leaf to its
bundle. From a well packed %hogshead
any bundle may be drawn without injury
or interruption to the others.
The usual way of packing is to com
nence across the middle of the hogshead,
placing the heads OF the first course of
bundles about eight or ten inches from
the outer edge, and running the course
evenly across; the packer then places the
bundles of the next course in the same
Ill 1r. IL. bo Cd. of
the hogshead, and follow the circumfer-
ence until the heads of the two courses
come in contact; after that course is COM
pleted, he finishes the other side by plac-
ing the heads against the cask as before,
so as &c have three courses across the
cask, the bundles all laid in the same d.
rection, and the next layer is reversed,
carefully placing each bundle as it is
thrown or handed him. When filed, it
is subjected to the press or screw, and
forced down.
Our hogsheads are from forty-four to
forty-eight inches across the head, and
ffty-eight inches in length, and from
$500 to 1000 pounds can be easily
priced in them. If the tobacco is large
rich, and oily, the harder it is. pressed
the better. and the better price it com
mands. These remarks are particularly
applicable to those descriptions of to-
bacce known in Virginia as heavy ship
ping leaf, and in the West as GAINESVILLE
tobacco, where the soil and climate are
peculiarly adapted to the production OF
this description of tobacco. In climates
not so we'll adapted, and soil of differ
ent character, the same variety of the
weed will assume different character,
being of finer or coarser texture, a:
the case may be, light and bulky, and
destitute of oil and substance. Tobacco
of this description should be managed as
before directed, but priced lightly in the
casks, so as to admit of free and open
leaf, and being mostly required for cigar
leaf -
The writer has been close observe,
of tobacco sales for several years, anC
has seen difference of from two 10 five
dollars 2 cwt. produced in crops grown
on adjoining farms, cultivated in tht
same manner, and sold on the same day
The buyer must take the tobacco as
comes from the planter hands; he cal
use only a certain part OF 1t per day
That.in safe condition he can keep TO
future use, and is always willing to pa
for it full market rates; that out of cor
dition ne must keep until he can use i
and, if he considers his interest buys a
what it will be worth to lin when b
shall be ready to work it up, thereb
throwing on the planter the injury an
loss in the tobacco from the time of pu
chase to that of manufacturing. Tn
loss is considerable The planter has I
bear II; II Is right that tc Utrould. Il
has no cause to complain of the mani
facturer; if he feels like doing so, |,
him come here in September or Octobe
and walk into one of our large factorie
and take look at a hogshead then beir
pulled up, bearing his own name on
head, which he sold in the spring. "
presume he would then feel rather mo-
sympathy than blame for the manufa
turer, and congratulate himself that
and that tobacco parted long ago B
planters can remedy this evil. 1t is us
less for them to talk about bad seasol
for striking, bad winds, cold winds, t
much or two little rain, etc. This W
not exonerate them from the duty tn
owe themselves. These bad seasons a