The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-02-09


How the Plant Bed is Made the
Fly Prevented; the Land Pre-
pared the Tobacco Cultivated
and Manured; and What is re-
quired to Successfully Cure it.
Burn and sow in good time a suf-
ficiency OF plant land, in good. warm
situations for early plants. Use An
chor Brand Tobacco Fertilizer (Gil-
hams), when sowing the seed, 100to
$50 pounds 10 the 500 square yards,
according to the fertility of the land
burned. If necessary to force the
plants along, use the same Fertilizer
in smaller quantity as a top-dressing.
observing to apply the Fertilizer
when the plants are not wet with rain
or dew.
To prevent slepredations by the
fly. use groand plaster, in which
rags, saturated with Kerosene oil.
have been laid for some hours, and
cover the plants if necessary. with
the plaster thus prepared.
The yellow Oronoco" and "Sillly
Pryor are the kinds best adapted
10 coal-curing, while gray soils (and
the fresher the better, with dry po-
rous subsoil, are best adapted to the
growth and maturity Of yellow to-
bacco.
Eight years experience in the use
of the above Tobacco Fertilizer has
convinced the writer that it is the
planters best aid in the production
Of rich. silky bright, yeit0t0 tObHccO.
Lands capable of producing yellow
tobacco need just such help as is fur
nished 10y this Fertilizer, in hasten
ing the growth, and giving size, sub
stance, and early maturity to the
plant. From 100 to 500 pounds per
acre Of the Fertilizer may be profit
ably used. Apply in the drill. ex-
cept ON new ground. where this mode
is inapplicable and broadcasting is
best. Plant in hills, instead Of beds.
as soon af; er the 10Th Of May as the
plants and seasons will admit, Com
meRce cultivation as soon as the
plants begin to spread over the hills,
whether grassy or not. and continue
10 stir the land with piow and hoes
till tile tobacco begins 10 ccme in
top. using short singl etrees. as the
plants increase in size, to prevent
breaking and bruisimg- When the
plants are too large 10 admit the
pillow, use only hoes to keep down
the grass and weeds.
Wait till considerable number of
plants begin to button for seed be-
fore YOU commence to top then these
win ripen about the same time. Top
ping must be done according to the
appearance and promise of each
plant, strength of soil, and time the
work il done. First topping for me-
dfum tobacco should be from ten 10
twelve leaves, rarely more; priming
off lower leaves. neither too high nor
too low, but just enough. so that
when the plant ripens the lower
leaves may be we'll off the ground.
Continue topping as the plants are
large enough, observing, as the sea
son advances, TO top lower and lower.
so as to bring in the late plauts be
fore frost.
The pIow should not be used later
than the 1st of August. as plowing
late keeps the tobacco green too
long, and may cause it to ripen Of a
green color. The hoe should be re-
lied on after that time to clean the
crop. -..-.- .---.-.
After the tobacco begins to grain.
that is. to ripen. neither pIow or hoe
should be used, as it has been found
best to sacrifice pounds to color.
The plants after being topped
should be kept clear of worms; or,
better still, kill the tobacco fly with
cobalt in the flower of the JdDaeztoaCn
ueed,* and the suckers should be
pulled off before they grow too long.
Mind, do not he in a hurry to cut
your tobacco before fully ripe, and
enough fully and uniformly ripe to
fill barn. Have your barns close
Qog ones are best.) we'll daubed and
dry. Cut the tobacco of uniform
size. color and quality, putting about
Roven medium plants to an ordinary
four and half feet stick. Let the
plants go from the cutters hands over
the stick in the hands of holder,
who will serve two cutters. When
tile stick is filed. it should 90 di-
rectly. without touching the ground.
on a wagon. to be carried, when
loaded, mot too heavily,) to the barn.
1t will take from seven hundred to
eight hnndred sticks of tobacco to
fill barn twenty feet square, with
five rooms. and four firing tiers below
joists. placing the sticks about ten
inches apart, the proper distance for
medium tobacco. As soon as the
barn is properly filled, and the tobac-
CO. regulated on sticks and tiers, fires
#Dissolve an ounce of the cobalt of the
shops in pint and half of water, and
mix it with mOlasses or other syrup, bot
lie it, and drop IL through quill into the
heart. Of the blossom- 1t should be done
about sundown, and the poisoned flow
ers pulled off the next day, otherwise the
plant viii be destroyed. It has been
found that this weed, so treated, planted
around the edge of the tobacco lot, and
Iere and there through the patch, will
prevent, TO great extent, the ravages Of !
he tobacco worm. All the planters,
In one neiglIborhOod must act
together, and this can he arranged /
through tic local agricultaral club 4