Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1880-05-06
Cultivation and, Cure of Fine
Tobacco
from the Lynchburg Virginian. |

raising plants, tor Should we fail
here it would be a total failure.
For carly planting, warm south
ern exposure. should be selected, so
that the bed can catch the first
rays Of the morning sun. The
soil should be Of a fine gray. tex
ture, and Of moist nature. I have
known plants to be successfully
raised without burning the bed,
bat guano should be used very
freely and mixed tloroudy into
The soil, and should there be no
dry weather this mode of prepara-
ton viii, be asuccess.
The surest way is to burn the
plant bed. coaer It, and work it up
nicely with hoes and rake. Sow a
tablespoonful and half Of seed to
every hundred square yards !; tread
it with the foot, or pass a roller
over it !, then cover with chaff,
straw, or any kind of brush exeept
pine. / have seen somewhere di-
rections given to cover the plant
bed with pine brush nothing
would be more fatal to. the e1is>
tcnce of perfection of thesplant.
PREPARATION OF THE LAND.
tobacco land should never be
prepared with tarring pillow.
Clay tHrned up on tho SUI face is
very repugnant to the growth of
tine tobacco-in fact, when much
of it is thrown on tho surface to-
bacco will not grow on it at all 5;
hence the surface soil should
always be kept on the surface. To
prepare 1.-The land most conducive
to the growth of fine tobacco, a
subsoil plough should bc used, with
mould board off. The Cook or
Flippen subsoil plongh should be
used ; in the absence OF these use
the Golfer or shovel plough. Land
with gray surface and mnlatto
subsoil, prepared as indicated
above, may have been in cultiva-
ton fifty years, and it will grow
fine yellow tobacco. For time OF
planting, | prefer from the 2Cth o.
May to the 1st Of June plants o
of the broad leaf Orinoco variety
Within eight or ten days after
planting the tobacco should bt
worked, for the sooner you still
the soil around the yonng plant tho
sooner it will start off to growing
The second, which should DC til,
best working should follow in
rapid succession. Plow the land
we'll With the shovel plow, drawin:
to the plant very small hill TO
| am confiden: that tobacco shonlt
be cultivated as near as possible OF
a leve, surface. The crep is now lai,
by; under favorable se.s IDS it vii
rapidly come into the top. Nov
E do not grow inpatient to top it to,
soon; let it button and occasiona
blooms appear over the field, the1
top according to size Of the plan
and strength of the land, varyin;
from 8 to Ia leaves, after primin;
: some eight inches from the GROUND
THE PREPARATION FOR CUTTING.
!, Tobacco should not be allowe
. to "remain on the hill" until it
thoroughly ripe. You may gai
something in pounds, but you wi
lose largely in beauty of color on
, fneness of texture, ,and consequent
ly in largeness of price. Tobacco
should be cut when about two
: thids ripe. 1t reaches this stat
G after two full growths of sucker
, = THE BARN BEST ADAPTED FOR CURlN.
> A barn 1890 feet, four frin
e tiers, and a fiat root the GOVERN
: should be OF boards; you shou
: cover your packing barn with shil
~ - giles, but never a curing barn.
= the proper amount OF heat con
- be procured, and the tobacco cou
be protected from the rain th
:, might fall while curing, it would
= . better to have no roof at all, then 3
10 !. the sweat which gathers on the lea
IN thus tending to stain it when in co
~ ~ tact with the heat, would instant
= escape. Thus you see the reast
- for my objection to the single ro
" in curing. 1t confines the inoistu
too closely in the barn, for heat
!, contact with dampness on the lie,
). > after the yellowing period, is bou'
- to darkcn the color. / have
-. ~ doubt bat that Pro. Barnett won
~ object to this PHILOSOPHY, as
- wants the dampness and moisture
-. =. the barn by the watering process.
,]fl THE INSTRUMENT FOR CURING.
ed 1t is claimed By some that coz
tc cured tobacco will retain its col
as much longer than that cured in a
n other way. This may be true, t
is when we note the tact that the cl
his ting OF coai-wood, barning, a
is drawing it, ana then the inme,
,M exposure to heat i'm running I
ffres,th breaking down Of strong