Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1881-08-12
Tobacco.

lhle cIop VIII no" heeu the ulihoSl
and require unwearied en-
ergy to keep clean of worms and suck
ers. Top low and leave only twelve
to sixteen leaves on plant. To de-
stroy the worms, use all the hand la
Dor you can command and all the
poultry-turkeys, geese and ducks
you can get hold of, and also destroy
all the ''horn blower" toll acco
butterfy-to do this kill them by
hand, reward the children for each fly
they kill, and put IA few drops OF co
bait in the flowers of the plant, and
in the flower cups of the jamestown
weeds and Of all flowers that You find
the horn-blowers dip their long pro
boscis into. There is poor economy
in growing a large crop of tobacco
that it may be eat up by worms, or SO
mutiated as to be not saleable Most
planters stop" too high-much is lost
by such greediness or mistaken policy.
Low topping produces large leaves,
more body and firmness, gives more
weight to the same plant and ripens
earlier. But the suckers must be
broken before they get three inches
long or they will exhaust the plant.
Let the tobacco get well ripened be
fore it is housed if possible. 1t takes
four to six weeks to ripen properly
after it is topped. 1t gains flavor,
richness, substance and weight in ri
pening. Do not crowd it when
housed, either by having too many
plants on the stick or the sticks too
close together. Ten plants of good
sized growth are enough on a stick
five feet long, and the sticks should
be twelve inches apart on the joists or
stringers.
Rye.-It is convenient way to SOW
rye amongst the standing corn, and
it will get good roots and growth, SO
as to make fine winter pasture for
sheep and young stock. The rye crop
requires early SOW ing to produce well.
Pasturing on it by sheep or calves and
young colts until the middle of March
will not materially injure its grain
yielding powers. A gentleman from
the Eastern Shore of Maryland told
us that he sows it specially to give
him an abundance of green food for
his dairy cows and other stock in win
ter and spring, either for soiling or
pasturage. He states also that when
it was fully grown and before the seed
was ripe, he always cut and tied in
bundles portion of it, to tie his corn
shocks with, and also to tie the bun
dies of corn fodder. 1t when cut
green was more pliable and made
stronger rope than when it had become
ripe, and used in that way it never left
seed to grow amongst the wheat that
follows corn. If the straw is used for
tying the corn heaps after the rye had
ripened, no matter how carefully it
had been threshed or failed, there
would be seed lift which the follow
ing year appeared in the wheat and
caused much trouble to pluck it out
of the wheat crop.
Late PotatOes.-Keep the late po-
tates free of grass and weeds and the
land we'll stirred until the blossoms
appear. Destroy the bugs or beetles
by applying Royal Purple or Paris
Green in liquid form through the
newly invented syringe, or mixed two
pounds to bushel Of plaster and put
in course or guano bag and shake
over the vines. BY the latter method
the beetles will be killed and the plas-
ter will help the growth of the pota-
toes. Apply this remedy as often as
the potato bug seems formidable. The
ravages of the potato bug are stopped
easily by this simply applied remedy.
'sForced by my political connections
into public life, my suferings were
intensified by the comments of thos,
who saw my face and head covered
with scrofulous humor," said gentle
man recently cured by