The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-02-10
agricultural.
TOBACCO.
How to Manage 1t.
FROM THE H.ANT-BED TO THE WARE.
HOUSE.


HOUSE
For the guidance and benefit of
our readers, and more particularly
those who are just beginning the
cultivation If tobacco, we shall spare
no pains to present them from time
to time with the best and most re-
liable information from the most
practical and Successful tobacco farm
ers, as to the 'est methods of cult
waiting and hafling it. We begin
with the first i 5ep-the plant bed
and we shall fta Ow it with articles
from the most trustworthy sources,
all along throudi the seasons, to the
warehouse.
The followineis from the pen of
Messrs. \. H. &tA. G.. Fleming. of
Dutchville Towlship, Granville Co..
who were selectelto write the treat
ise, by the Durham Fertilizer Co..
because OF their Kill and success in
raising fine Tobacco, and who are Ell
dorsed by all of te Warehousemen
of Durham as ''anOng the best and
most successful gpwers rand hand
lers of fine briglt tobac eco in the
State" With sun an endorsement
we do not hesitatekh h caasmeadyw4rat
they say to our readers. Our next
will be on ''the selection and prep
aration of the landfor the crop
|. PLANT-BEDs AND n EIR TREATMENT
The growth and forwa{ {lness of the plant
depends greatly upon te location of the
bed. The location sholld be of a south
ern exposure, the soil aoist, with sweet
gum and post-oak grFth principally,
and near a small branch if possible.
III. BURNING AND MANRING.-The bed
should be cleared nicelyof all shrubbery
| and litter before burnik. Plant land
! should never be burnetwhen wet, but
when-the land is in goodbrder. We pre-
fer to burn from the 1t of January to
the lst of March, thouA the time ex-
tends from November ] o. to April lst.
The manuring is one pint to be well
] looked after. The man1e for the bed
should never be of buriing nature. as
/ that Is apt to retard theSrowth of the
plants in dry weather. W3use fine stable
manure, which should bespplied evenly
over the bed after the dad Goals and
ashes are raked off; thenwith grubbing
hoes, hoe up three or -four inches deep.
not turning up the soil niOe than can be
helped. If the bed is nev, rake off the
roots and apply from thirv-five to fifty
pounds per one hundred yards, of the
standard tobacco fertilizer. Durham Bull
Is used great deal througlour section, }
tiien with weeding-hoe, cop the bed
thoroughly and rake, with . fine rake,
taking OFT all coarse obstales. When
| the bed Is ready for the seed, which
| should be sown, one tablespoonful to the
one hundred square yards, mixed well
with about one gallon of dy ashes, or
fertilizer; SOW as evenly q possible
| when sown, tread nicely, to ,vevent the
beds "speecing" in extreme COZ weather
drain well and puto canvass which can
be removed as soon as the plalts. are safe
from the fly and frost, which aabout the
| 10Th or 18th of April. It is cry impor-
/ tant to keep the u,eas and srass pulled.
as they are very Injurious ofhe plants.
The following method # prepar-
ing the plant bed is given by Capt.
K. B. Davis. of Catawba county.
tie is native of Halifax county,
va one OF the LARGEST tobaeeo-grow-
Il my counties in that State, aad there
as mere for the last ten years, he has
been highly succe*ful in tie cult
vation of the plant
The combined experiences of these
gentlemen thus plainly and intelli-
gently given. we think. will enable
any of our farmers b avoid any Sc
rious mistakes in th first very i'm
-portant work of seflring a supply
of healthfnl. vigorous rpsasave
4 Captain Davis says:
: To the planter an ea4Iy and abundant
supply of tobacco planl is the thing of