The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-01-28
PLANT TOBACCO.

ton to the best paying crops IN a
money point Of view. Raising corn
and wheat is not remunerative. ow
ing to the uncertainty of the season
and market and the competition of
more favored localities. A good to.
bacco crop, however, is always ready
sale for cash, and the soil Of this
county and section is as we'll adapt
ed TO the growth of fine tobacco as
that OF any soil in the country. Re-
Gently, while visiting Bristol. we we're
shown in the tobacco warehouse of
j. H. Winston & Co, sample of to-
bacco raised in HambIen county, be.
tween MorristowA and Holston river,
which Mr.. Winston pronounced the
finest specimen OF tobacco, in every
particular that made the product
saleable, that had ever been brought
to his house, and he assured US, from
8 personal acquaintance with the
character of the lands in our vicinity,
that they were peculiarly adapted to
the growth of the finest grade of to-
bacco. We urge our farmers to plant
largely this year. There is hardly
one that cannot, in addition to lais-
ing his own provisions, cultivate
from one to five acres in tobacco.
Now is the time to get ready for the
crop. There is none other that will
bring as much money into the coun-
try as this, and it stands every farm
err in hand 20 raise the best paying
crop he can. We copy the following
extracts from the PIenters Guide for
CultiUating and Curing Tobacco. They
will be of interest to the growers of
tobacco just at this juncture. The
time TO commence is now. Don't put
it off until the time to SOW the seed
is on hand and no ground ready to
receive the young plants. The sue
cessful growth of tobacco depends
very much upon the success attained
10 the plant beds. No large amount
of capital is required 20 plant a few
acres at least. Says the Guide:
SELECTION AND PREPARATION OF
PLANT. BEDs.-In selecting a place
for plant beds, remember that you
wish to obtain early and vigorous
plants therefore. take a rich, warm
hillside, protected by timber or other
wise. Red lands are usually insult
ed for this purpose. Never use wet
or cold land. After finding a suita-
BILE place, select a cry time during
the month of December or January
the sooner the better, -rake off
the leaves, lay down skids (about
three inches in diameter), three feet
apart, across which lay bed of wood
five or six feet wide, and high enough
to burn for about an inch and half
and yet leave a sufficient quantity to
remove and kindle in another place.
After the fire has burned the length
of time specified, move it the length
of the first layer, then throw on
brush, a good bed Of wood, and con-
tinue as before. Every farmer ought
to provide himself with iren hooks
for pulling plant bed fires. If it is
possible to injure land by burning
we have never experienced it; and
think that where one bed is injured
by burning, ten are injured for want
oft. For every ten thousand plants
there ought to be at least
ten square yards of plant bed. A
bed of this size will supply more
than the number mentioned, but it is
much better to have some for your
than to be under the neces-
sity of begging plants.
After burning the land should re.
rain untouched a few weeks. that
he rains and frosts may assist in
the soil; then with
nattock, dig up the bed without turn
ng it over, and pulverize thorough
Y with a hoe and rake. Remove all
he roots, spread light coating of
table manure, chop it in, rake again,
md the bed is ready for sowing. A
arge tablespoonful of seed to the
en- yards square is enough to SOW.
This should be carefully mixed with
lifted ashes, about half Of it sown
me way, and the other half by walk.
ng across the first sewing. By this
he seed will be more regularly dis
After seeding, the land
hould be rolled or trodden until it
} smooth. Now is the time to ma
ure. We consider horse manure
under cover land free from
tier or grass seed) to be the best
Or this purpose. Chop it fine and
pread a coating (say half an inch or
lore) evenly over the bed. This
lould be the last maauring unless
lie spring is very dry, when light :
,p~dressing occasionally will be !
eRe6cial.
X 4 About three weeks after '
wing, the bed should again be roll
] or troddeu, and covered with Ene !