The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-04-14

81 great as in the other case yet 1t was SUI
fciently marked to give evidence OF the great
importance of obtaining seed grown
on sandy soils. There is one thought In con-
nection with seed wheat omitted, II Is this:
Sow none but clean wheat; let there be no
foreign seeds, such as cheat or cookie. Ii
there is ever so little of this, it will increase
and the ground become "foul," and Will be-
come more and more so from year to year.
Farmers sometimes say, my wheat is toll
erably clean and L will sow it," This Is not
so bad when the field is cultivated this year
in wheat and next year in corn, for the corn
cultivation destroys these pernicious seeds;
but when you propose to grow wheat on the
same ground for series Of years as aooVf'
proposed, tolerably clean seed will not do, 1t
must be clean or the experiment Will faai-
TOBACCO.
MORE OF THE CROP.
Twenty-four counties of Virginia. ~hich
in 1870 averaged l.OO0Veo Pounos eacn,
and together produced about wo%hiItds
of the crop, indicate crop in
1873 larger by 80 per cent, or = 100000
in the entire state. Ten counties
in North Carolina, which produced $500 :
9fS pounds OF the total 1l,l5O,OSI
in 1870, make returns which aggregate very
nearly the same in 1873. The quality aver
ages verv we'll with that of former crops
sorre little bettor two Below sverage. In
Surry about one-tenth is very fine, perhaps
as tine as any raised in the 'Uoited States,
soil and climate being so well adapted"
Oaswell, long noted for its fine, yellow to
bacco, and for producing more than any
ether county in North Carolina. has small
crop ONLY 1000 900. The official returns of
tobacco in Maryland making total of
t4,7S5, 339 pounds IN $50, against 81, 4lO,90o
pounds in 1860. Five counties, which sup
ply about 90 per cent. of the total, report an
increase of about % per cont. on the last
census crop. There is no county in
South Carolina or Georgia that re-
ports 100000 pounds, and but one
in Florida, Gadsden, which produced
lis 799 pounds of the 157 400 pounds reported
Cuba tobacco which is exclusively grown
here. Only $1,000 pounds are returned as the
crop of 1878, worth 80 cents per ponnd. The
area planted is estimated at. eighty acres,
Welding little over $50 pounds TO the acre.
When labor was abundant to clear the richer
hummock land, Yeas ago. the average pro
duct was 800 rounds. The Southwestern
States do not grow tobacco as market crop.
Tennessee returned as the crop of 1869, aC-
cording 10 the census, Fl ,465, 452 pounds.
Nine counties, which contributed more than
two-thirds of that quantity, now report
about per cent. increase, or Io,e2O,oVe
pounds, grown on about $4,000 acres, and
worth cents per pound. Tobacco is not a
prominent crop in West Virginia. About
1000 600 pounds are reported tor 1855,
OF which nearly two-thirds were grown
in Putnam, Kanawha, Fayette. Cabtll,
and Mercer, in the order named. Kentucky
stands at the head of tobacco growing states
in respect to quantity. Returns from forty
three counties which reported 1924. 305
pounds in 1869, of the return of 100, 3O5, o69
pounds, now return estimate of last years
crop, sggregatiDg 1O9S50, 475 pounds grown
on $50 PA acres, and valued at 6 cents per
pound. These counties represent above 20
per cent. of the production, and If the re-
manning counties have made a similar in
crease, the total for Kentucky would
be about one hundred and forty million
pounds. Tobacco is not prominent crop
j.. Wisconsin, being grown mainly in Rock
and Dane counties. The former, which is
credited with 654, sos pounds in 1869, now
returns 100000 pounds, grown on j, 400
acres, and worth four cents, seven mills
per pounds. In Ohio, Montgomery stands
first in production, in the census of 1870,
among tobacco counties, returning more
than one-tifth of the aggregate quantity in
the state. Ten counties, which were cred
tied with nearly twO-thirds of the state
product, now report more than that aggre-
gate, or Is, 952, 253 pounds. The comparison,
however, with assessors returns for 1869
would not show an advance. The crop of
MONTGOMERY in 1872 WIS IT'S 543; the esti-
mate for 1873 is the same. Returns from
Missouri show an increase of about thirty
five per cent. over those of the census.