The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-12-23
others, irresponsible 10 the people; aud 50
with every other officer In the state"
Dark-Tobacco Growing-Diversifed
Production.

EiOttUS>AChs
The time Is at hand when our folks In
the country are thinking Of what crops
they will pitch the coming year. Many Oh
them will still cling to tobacco, worked IN
the old-fashioned way, as their man stay
desnite the fact thai 1t has been, except IN
the "fancy-bright" country. extremely un-
romuncrasiye for several years past. The
d,v Tor extensive farming with us has GER
tainly gone by; we must, sooner or ia'er'
,.sort 70 the intensive and diversified me-
,hod Small areas well handled will do
the work OF profitable farming Tor us.
Speakine OF tobacco, we nave leuneu
,bat there is constant demand,
NJ having prices, for first-class black
wrappers, and that this demand would Jake
in the neighborhood OF 10000 hogsheaus.
Austria. Germany, Holland, Belgium, ana
switzerland want them, to say nothing OF
orr own domestic demand in connection
with the manufacture OF "black na'les.
This being the case, why could not our
neonle. especially in the Southside country,
N
nile IN a norton OF their low-grounds all
the domestic manure, OF every sort,
tbey can rake and scrspe, ana strike
for a frst-rate crop Of black wrappers!
II they must needs buy commercial Ter
tilizers, let these he put on their uplands'
and cotton be made the crop. TINS crop Is
easily worked. and is ready for sale, all OF
II. before Christmas, assuming, OF course
the PLANTER does his part. The ayails OF the
cotton will give him all the money he VIII
need to pay off his hands, and leave his To-
bacco-patch comparatively free OF burden
He will. of course, do his best to see that
food-crops enough are grown to feed man
and beast on his place. 1t never PAID any
farmer. in our judgment, 20 buy his bread
The Richmond and Danville Railway
Company. and we know Of no organization
Of the sort that pursues more enlightened
nolicy. went to the trouble last spring OF
providing cotton-seed for any planter on
the south side along its line who might be
disnosed 10 try cotton as crop. They
also furnished TO him memorandum SHOW
inc how the crop was to be cultivated TO
reach success in that region. We hear that
not few awaited themselves Of the offer, but
the drought was too severe 10 permit OF the
result being as satisfactory as could have
been reasonably hoped for. This, how
ever, is beginning, and we hope the ei-
fort will not be abandoned, giving as IT
does the promise we have indicated. a
merchant of Richmond wrote to Colonel
Tow HOLT, of North Carolina, proprietor
~ the famous Haw-River Cotton Factory,
asking him if, in his judgment, it would
be safe to sell goods to the people OF his
county the coming season. This is his an
swer: "My opinion is that our Alamance
farmers are in good condition, in spite
of the drought. They do not contine them
selreS TO anu one crop, but raise a little Of
ereruthinq. You can operation this county
with rs much safety, therefore, next spring,
and with as good assurances OF being
promptly paid, as in any previous year"
II diversified farming has done this for
Alamance county, ought it to do less for
the farmers of Virginia: