The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-09

The very erroneous impression prevails
that tobacco will not do well in Texas. Such
aconviction about wheat was entertained in
the Southern portion of the State up to u few
years ago, At an early day some one told
the farmers down there no had tried it and
failed, ard from thence on, no one else made
the effort until an Illinois immigrant sowed
twenty acres, while everybody around him
laughed. They stopped laughing when they
saw hun thresh out thirty two bHshels to
each acre. orGi0 bushels Of il in all, and they
all have been planting wheat ever since and
making enough to do them and some for sale.
To that notion and to tho fact that we have
so few settlers from Virginia and Southern
Kentucky, is due its neglect rs commercial
crop. Connecticut is far north of us, Cuba
far south, and yet tobacco llourshes in both.
We are midway of each, as is North Caro-
lima, where il grows to perfection, with this
difference in our favor: frost disappears one
month sooner and returns six week later
quite dissideratum in the life of that highly
sensitive plant AS to soil, that of North
Texas is far richer than any of the States
mentioned. know nothing about Cuban
earth, but do know, from actual sight, that
North Carolina and Connecticut have the
poorest lands, naturally, in the Union that
NO one in Teyas would cultivate tho hest of
them.
Ground il never too rich for tobacco. Tho
great question with its nroducer is 10 oct il
rich enough, and to this end stable and COM
mercial msn,res have 10 be used in the old
Statea without s,int and. nc il ia the most OK.
haustive crop in the world to the soil. nsed
euerv snr,ns 90 o~bams,;yo IL 4, ,,,anoJ
that no deld' bowover strong NATURALLY will
stand mora than two crons in .,,ccesS;on with
out artificialv ASSISTING nature in restor;nc
ito EXTRACTED Harcot;c nronortjes
Tho mode of cnit;va,;nn Ia s;r,nlo hpt to.
d;ous and labor;ous Yor- oon,n,aroo !, M,
later than tha ar.t veal, in Fehrusrv Tho
frst stem ia to nhnrn tho nlant ho5 ion
bean IA nilod M onyer;nlr och snooo os rnn S
indement or the s;1e If yonr intenJeJ cron
will dictate, and thon hum tho loga This !.
for the nurno.e of iIlling the oarSs of erase
and other seeds in the hod T6o hod il 3hon
spaded and pulyerized as fine as meal. when
the seed are sown and raked in 10 the denth
of half an inch. Then cover tbo he'd With
brush and leaves unon ton NJ /, thicl, enomgh
TO prevent the he'd from reezing, In three
weeks. if the we ther nermits, tbs nlan,s will
bppin tn ppme IN when you should rauoyo
the Leaves that tho S,;n w nav no, hn oh'
strncte5 and iosvo tho h,ns5 % n' ",t"h ,ho
Taht SroS,s whch a a fail Of ,bo, As Sna .m'
T6e oli"btest ,nnob 90 tho ,;"htoa, fr eo,
death 70 Tho vo,ne, tohscco .'ian, ond Nd w; II
arostlv ;,;nro ' r. rs, SAL, p ;n ",'' mn'
time cf ;ts iiS, ~ tho Is,tor ' ur, ~ " a. "1
the nian,s will be farce anou,b to sa, amt n
AZ. ~ bnI 's "''' W mi ~ enousu :" seS eu' !"
'"T Th I,e' tnh.coo so,a NINA, no n.on..oa ,,;h
great care II should hs y, n rrUpo y, WIN ,Sa
Greatest no..ihe 5anth in oraa U1 w W. s"o
tbe onest;on Of oistnre 40 oassD, GaIt :. .h
hoo,tb ana -; 'ar az ,ha ,,,an, 0'H TLn W tne
rronnd should ,bon ho barr"wod Inv nd 1fV ,hon
ebecled NTH ro , ,broa sao, "ua,, anu .Hen
Of r;nht VII WI ,0" 10 ~. apa.S iu,iii,ig
a"ma ns slEs. az t n:Y,, 'i.ers.c'oh Vi Tue
irh",. hn,, ,h hi.as rnus' 10 Maue.
. nuSo niis ale 'iien enIee lee1 apart either
WY measured. EVery.hing now peing 10
n .oau'ness' you must wSis ior good soaking
aa,u, anu .hen III tne AFTERNOON ana night SCI
~. your plants, putting oit one IN each nlii;
u sno eourse Oh week or TWO grass VIII
s sP, Hp IN rev ana on NIL. A light pillow
VIII XII, ,ne iormsr out a hoe must be pied
70 sne natter. IL must be kept perfectly
ciean' Ior nothing so inexoraoly demands all
the suStenAnCp nature nrOyldps "a th- tnharpo