The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-04-10
Why not Make Mississippi u 10.
baccO Growing State2
To the Editors of the Appeal.
fprrpBrr Mroe MoroI II.

climate. Most Western States are
| good tobacco countries, Cuba anc
| Mexico are, so are Tennessee AND
| Kentucky. My little boy and / last
! year cultivated II small tobacco crop
for outdoor employment, and, on my
! part, as much for experiment. Had
several sorts of ground planted
manured, as well as fresh and old
| land. On the man9red land two
| good crops were made. No hiring
anybody. The yield on all the ground
was abundant aud the tobacco all OF
good quality. Poor land produces
as good tobacco as any, but not so
much. There is, perhaps, no crop
so easily made, except the small
grains. l observed it well. The
Worming must be promptly attend.
ed to, but it is light work and easily
done. 1t is all light work. Well,
Mexico is a good tobacco country,
and has its cigar manufactures Vir
gina aud other States have their
manufactures for tobacco and cigars.
Here we are between the two, with
much better country tha1 either
Why not make all we consume, and
more too? IL, y. NJ.
The EXAMINER has been laboring
stalwartly to ''make Mississippi a
tobacco growing State,' in every one
of the nineteen years of its existence,
and has the salts faction Of knowing
that it's efforts have Lad some sue
cess. The greatest barrier to this
achievement has been the internal
Revenue laws that have for years
prohibited under heavy penalties the
sale of the leaf to any one but IA
| licensed dealer in leaf tobacco and
we have not one in our State--and
the prohibition against putting it
into any form but leaf without the
payment of manufacturers license,
Ia every year up to 1888 we sue
ceeded in getting some member OF
our delegation to introduce Il bill in
Congress for the repeal of SO much
of this Jaw as prohibited the sale Of
leaf tobacco at retail or on the farm
by the producers; but these bills
were as regularly killed as introduc>
ed. Last year when the tariff bill
was under consideration we got
Senator George 70 procure an
amendment that would permit The
farmer to sell a hundred dollars
worth of leaf tobacco Of his own pro,
duction, at the place Of production,
at retail. and our Senators and Rep
resentatiyes succeeded by hard work
in saving this amendment from the
general wreck in the Conference
Committee room, and it has been Of
vast service to the farmers in all the
| States.
Tobacco culture was the chIei
market industry Of Mississippi up tc
/ 1888, and we believe it will be again
as soon as the laws are so amended
as absolutely to free leaf tobacco
from all revenue restrictions. Here
/ in Monroe, and doubtless in many
other portions Of the State, it is tc
be found growing on almost every
plantation, and thousands of oul
people make every pound they chew
or smoke. We had hoped that the
Census of 1880 would make a grand
exhibit of this product, but the
farmers with that contempt for the
so, called "small industries which is
the curse Of the cotton region, failed
to give it in, and only Tippah and
Monroe counties made large reports
and neither of them-we judge Tip
pah by Monroe-reported tentl
part Of the yield.
The correspondent of the Appea
says: Poor land produces as good
tobacco as any'-this is thoroughly
demonstrated in Monroe,and it mus
be remembered that the "brigh
tobaccos' which have made Nortl
Carolina famous and rich since thC
war, are manly produced on pine
hill lands shat were considered com.
paratively worthless in ante be55at@
days.
We do not know who II, G, N )
is, but we recognize in him MAJ
who can if he will do much to pusI
this important industry upward AnC
onward, and he cannot aid the cause
in any better way than to prepare {
handsome exhibit of tobacco of hi
own raising and curing for the Mis-
sissippi Department in the New Or
leans Exposition. He should do thi
for the encouragement Of others; ant
every farmer who takes an inieres
| in tobacco culture should send al
exhibit. The result of this will b
that buyers will come to us; our pro
duct will obtain market and fame
and every Mississippi cotton farme
will find it in his power to raise
"side crop that is as merchantah
as our great staple, and that will adj
} vastly to his income.
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