Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-02-07
TILLERS OF THE SOIL.
MEETING OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY
AGRlCULTUklSTS.

MEETING OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY
klSTS.
Winter Crops Buried In snows-Growth and
Consumption of Lumber Trees in Amer
ica-White Vein In TObaccO-Pas-
turing Rank Wheat-SOilins
Cows, sc &c, &C.
A stated meeting Of the Lancaster county
Agricultural and Horticultural society was
held in their room in city hall yesterday
afternoon.
Following is list of the members
present: Joseph =. Wilmer, president,
Paradise NJ. ID. kendig, secretary. Cres-
well; Calvin Cooper, Bird-in- Hand !;
Frank II. Diffenderffer, city JAS. Wood,
Little Britain J. Frank Lands, East
Lampeter W. W. Griest, city; c. L.
Hunsecker, Mannheim ]. NJ. Johnston,
city Hebron Herr. Lampeter Enos
Weaver, Lampeter d. W. Graybill, East
Petersburg Wash. l.. Hershey, Levi $.
Reist, Oregon John II. Lands. Manor ::
Cyrus Neff, Mountville; II. X. Myers,
Millersville John G. Resh, West Willow :;
Ephraim 5. Hoover. Mannheim; Henry
Herr, Manor John Huber, Pequea, and
several others.
showed Under.
Crop reports were called for, but men,
bers had very little to say. Z. l.. Hun
seeker said the wheat and grass looked
we'll before they were covered by the re-
cent heavy SHOWS.
J. Frank Lands reported the rainfall
for January at A inches.
Wash. l.. Hershey said that in some
places, before the SHOWS came, the grass
and wheat were good deal frozen out.
Growth of Lumber Trees
c. L. Hunseckcr read an exhaustive cs.
say OH the growth and consumption Of
lumber trees in America. The great
length Of the essay prevents us from giving
it place in our columns.
What Causes White Vein.
What causes white vein in tobacco :!
was the question referred ut last meeting
to Hebron Herr His answer was as fol
lows
"This is very important question, and
ono that should elicit the attention and
consideration Of all growers Of the weed.
Numerous arguments have been advanced
on various occasions, but have not proven
satisfactory to the public in general.
In my little experience 1have discovered
that tobacco which had been grown per-
fectly, nothing interfering with its growth
from the small and tender plant up to per-
fectly matured stalk, will invariably cure
with the veins the desired color. Therefore,
the cause which produces white veins in our
tobacco is attributable first to diseased
condition of tho plants in one Or another
stage Of its growth. Tobacco may assume
this diseased condition at various stages of
its growth. 1t may become diseased in
our plant beds, OF when being transplanted
from our plant beds into the field, Or when
half matured, or after it is fully matured.
At any OF these stages it may become dis
eased, and never grow healthy thereafter.
Fully matured tobacco may become dis
eased by being permitted to stand in our
fields in the hot and dry sun after it has
ceased to grow. 1t may be left remaining
on the field after maturity without any
disastrous effect when the soil is in moist
and growing condition. BY permitting
tobacco to remain standing on our fields in
the hot and dry sun after ceasing to grow it
becomes subject to changes by the intiu-
ence of the SUMS rays robbing it of its
vitality and retarding the copious flow Of
life and vigor to the plants, evidently leaving
vested. We should be Very careful when
growing tobacco in seasons as the last two
were to harvest our crop immediately on
the plant arriving at maturiS or before it
ceases to grow. It, is better to have our
tobacco an inch or so shorter and harvest
it in healthy condition, than few inches
longer and harvest it in IN unhealthy con-
dition. The next point to be taken into
consideration, and one also pertaining to
the cause of white veins is that Of curing
the tobacco after it has been grown and
harvested. Experience being the best
teacher and guide has taught me that the
more we retard the curing of our tobrcco,
subjecting it to undergo Il number of
changes while curing, the better the color
will be and the leaf will possess more of
that fine silken condition, and with
much less frequency of white veins.
Moisture, claim, is one OF the prime
essentials in the curins of tobacco.
Our curing houses, therefore, should
be 80 constructed in the first place
not to have them built 50 high and
invariably have a ground floor. or So ar.
ranged if having another floor. that it
could be opened to permit the moisture
and dampness to draw up Though the
tobacco to assist in retardiIy the rapid
curing. Tobacco which | cured il my
tobacco cellar when coming to shipping
discovered no white veins also that which
cured in another building possessed very
little it also was subject to the influence
Of ground floor, while that which WAS
cured in my tobacco house possessed white
veins, and the higher up in my shed the
more numerous they became. Now, the
canSa Or reasons which | viye for this ia
that the tobacco which | cured in my Gel
lar cured slowly, undergoing numerous
changes of becoming moist, and when too
moist was by ventilation caused to
become dry, reviving the vitality and
vigor Of the plants which had become
dormant or inactive when harvested
while that cured in the house above
having not possessed this advantage,
cured very rapid and the more rapid the
more frequent would white veins appear.
Houses being covered with slate are often
spoken of as not being beneficial to curing
tobacco, owing no doubt to the heated
condition in which it becomes during
the day, causing the tobacco to cure
too rapidly. Tobacco harvested while in
a green state seldom cures white veins.
This is owing to the green and sappy con-
ditiOn OF the leaf, causing it to cure more
slowly and its being in a green state is
subjected to more numerous changes.
We should aid our tobacco as much as
possible while curing by closing tightly
our houses during the day, and opening
them at night. Therefore, in con
clusion, the cause of white veins in
our tobacco is attributable, first, to dis
eaSed condition of the Dlants while grow