Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-03-19
The Quantity and Quality OF the
White hurley Tobacco seed
so be Used.

White hurley Tobacco seed
50 be Used.
EDITOR CHRoNIcLE:-I see that
there is a great diversity of opin-
ion about the amount of tobacco
seed to be sOwn on a plant bed of
any particular dimensions, and as 1
have some important information,
obtained from the gentleman of
whom ] spoke in my last article, on
the inestimable value of the White
Burley, l deem it my duty to the
tobacco producing community to
communicate the same through the
medium of your excellent paper.
He dwelt at length on the quality,
as well as quantity, of seed to be
sown on one bed. In regard 10 the
quality, he said there were a good
many spurious seed on the market
called the White Burnley, that, in
fact, were not the simon pure, and,
unlike the genuine White Burnley,
had a very unwholesome effect
upon u country.
The most conspicuous among
those false articles of seed, and the
one better calculated above all
others, to lead you astray by ITS APP
parent ostensible displays, is the
variety called the GdrksUiLLe BurLy
Tobacco Leaf.
That variety of the spurious
weed, the gentleman said, produced
a very ostentatious but singularly
erroneous effect on our community,
leading the poor, benighted, but
credulous farmer, by its sophistry
into a labyrinth of errors, going
from whim to whim until a ray or
two of the light of common sense
displays their true situation, then
disappearing, as the igpis fdtuUs, to
reappear again in the midst of the
marsh, in a more alluring attitude,
to beckOn you on ; that it engend-
cred, instead of the benign, frugal
influence in our midst, u strong dis
position TO wrangle and dispute, to
censure our neighbor if he but dare
dissent from our dictlm.
This wonderfully fascinating, but
false weed, has another very pecu-
liar quality, that of emitting and
disseminating a very strange light,
which makes everything upon
which it falls, appear quite differ
ent from what it really is. For in
stance:
1t you should chance to see your
neighbors engaged in some benevo-
lent enterprise you would be per-
suaded they were raffiing," or
committing some other unlawful
act. Or should a neighbor write 4
communication to a county paper,
under the influence of this false
light, you are led to the erroneous
conclusion that he is the ''editor."
These are a few of the many sing
ular results growing out of sowing
the seed Of the Ua1ksUiUe BurLy To-
6accO Leaf.
Fortunately, however, for the
country, this false seed can be dis
tinguished from the true White
Burnley. On a close examination,
the seed are found to look very
puffy as though they were filled
with gas. They also are very light
and quite transparent, not dIssimi-
lar from the effects they produce,
and being taken out of their own
peculiar light into the pleasing
light of common sense and exam
ined infinitely, without the aid of
microscopic power, you may see
plainly delineated on every seed
advocate Of" and in still smaller
letters, scarcely visible, the word
"humbug." AS regards the guam
tity of seed to be sown on our soil,
if you can succeed IN getting the
genuine White Burley (NIr. Tom
HerndOn's head is level on that
%scOre), about ten bushels to a bottom
field would be right. But if you
should SOW the UdrkSUiUe BurLy
Tobacco Leaf, the fewer the seed
the better success. Hoping the
above caution to farmers, in procur-
ing their seed, all sufficient, l sub
scribe myself. Respectfully yours,
THE Hon. Mr.. FLAT.
DOtsonville, March IA, '81.