The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1888-09-06
CURING TOBACCO.
TIMELY HINTS TO TOBACCO
FARMERS.
The Process Of Flue-curing Contracted
With that of Air and Sun-curing.

II. b. l.. Jr. In durham Tobacco tlant.l
Tobacco elicits as much comment
as any other one subject that agitates
the public mind.
The question comes up, "What
kinds of tobacco suit the trade best ?"
First, the plug trade requires fine
white wrapper secondly, fine lem
on wrapper thirdly, fine mahogany
wrapper, and last, but not least, a
fine sun cured or air-cured wrapper.
How can the farmer produce these
goods?
To make fine white wrapper you
select from your fields the smooth yell
low plants, hang on sticks from six to
eight plants, give ventilation in top
of barn to prevent sweating and yel-
low at 100 degrees. You hereby OBJ
tain most desirable wrapper and one
that commands the highest market
value.
To make the fine lemon wrapper
you need not change from the above
directions except in the kind of plants
selected from the field. You have to
take moderately large leaf tobacco,
we'll ripe, and yellow at from o5 to
100 degrees. This wrapper also COM
mands large price.
! To obtain a fine mahogany wrap
per, you change from the process al
ready given for the other two. You
60 to the fields, cut the very ripest
plants of good large size, hang on
sticks six plants, hang in barn twelve
inches apart, yellow at from IS to 95
degrees. Close the ventilation in top
of barn while yellowing to keep your
tobacco IN soft, clammy state,
When your tobacco is we'll yellowed
open the ventilation in the top before
you raise the heat and nine times Out
of ten you will have produced one o.
the finest mahogany wrappers and one
that the trade usually seeks the yeal
round.
Of course you will also bear ir
mind that, from the above process o
curing, you obtain the fancy white
cutter, for if you make a fine white
wrapper it follows as matter o
course you get fancy white cutter.
| am free to admit that in produc
ing the mahogany wrapper the cutie
will not be so white as in the othe
two classes, but it is also equally Ger
tain that it will by no means be worth
less. While they are not white, the
are generally of better favor and Q
sufficient color to be utilized to grea
advantage by cigarette manufacturers
In conclusion, | think the farmer
: would do we'll to cure part OF thel
crop by sun or air. l greatly prefe
the latter mode. 1t is very simple
and cheaper than sun-curing. Con
, struct cheap frame barn with larg
folding windows, two on each side an
one in each end cut your tobacc
and hang in barn as though you wer
going to flue cure; open the windo"
in fair sunny weather. You can le
them remain open through the nigh
l in fair weather, of course closing bot
t windows and door in damp, rain
weather. Continue this treatmer
: until the leaf is we'll cured. BY tn
mode you make a wrapper that r.
i sembles the highland terrapin she'll
S color and will sell high in all Il
+ markets of the country and you ais
S get one of the finest and sweetest I'll
=. ers for plug work, and makes che
d that beats the world. | make tn
d statement from personal knowledg
|" | treated barn of tobacco IN tn
e way in curing during the war and so
q it at the close of the war, wrappe
e and filters all for hundred dollars P
o hundred in Richmond, Va, and so
e all the lugs off the same for fifty dc
lars per hundred.
+ purchased barn of tobacco fro
y A. NJ. Veazy, of Granville, treated
l. the same way in 1865, containing S
hundred pounds, for which l pa
ie him fifty dollars per hundred, averae
sold the same lot of tobacco to N
: Samuel Morgan, a manufacturer,
'e few weeks after, at eighty dollars P
e hundred, average. The said lot
tobacco was worked by Mr.. Jam
'e Day, now of Durham. and / think
"a would tell you, if consulted, that
was the finest tobacco he ever work
into plug, and if our North Carroll
a farmers would resort to this mode
Id curing tobacco, and raise sufhcle
s. quantity to attract the attention
a manufacturers they would restore
Sc high repute for fine air and sun-cuE
rs tobacco which has been lost by
't. universal practice OF flue-curing a
ID knock the White Burley as high as
y kite.
| noticed an article recently in
Tobacco Plant in which the tobat
ur editor recommends TO the 0I men
he the country the practice of sun-cur
ID | tobacco who have no sons to sit
TO land fiue-cure. | think that if the