The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-01-30

of the Subject OF Sol! Best
Suited for its Production.
WEST VIRGINIA AND NOR rH CAROLINA CITED
FOR vERIFIcATIoN.
RICHMOND, Va, January g.
When we eat meat or drink milk,
said a great chemist, we virtual
ly consume ourselves since we aIe
eating and drinking thecomposi-
ton OF our own bodies, the analy-
sis being the same. 1t is just so
with the Tobacco plant of first
commercial quality, its best food
being Tobacco leaves and stalks,
and its next best, its decomposition
kindred, vegetation possessing all
OF its own strains that haveliyed
and died, leaving meat and milk
in the form of vegetable mould,
the accumulated essence of all
that had passed beforeit for ages,
and been converted through the
agency of earth worms into a
compost that no artificial ma
nure can equal. The demand of
late years, owing to the great
scarcity OF fresh lands, and the
general deterioration of Tobacco
in consequence OF cultivating old
land, is for fancy colors. All a
guarantee of high quality, since
nothing but the perfect growth
can be cured fancy, and whilst we
have NJ room to complain OF the
progress our West Virginia pa
irons have made in the last ten
years, we find many Of them not
changing with the wants of the
trade, and clinging persistently
to the heavier kinds raised on
strong soil, when it would pay
them better to select the soils
lowing to their great abundance
in West Virginia) that will al
ways produce the fancy kinds.
Owing TO the restricted area of
such lands, this class ofgoods can
never suffer over-produetion, and
as no country outside of our own
restricted belt is capable OF max
ing such a grade OF tobacco, we
may always look forward to the
whole world az a field for the man
ufactured product.
We find that these grades 1.-THE
finest at least) are raised in West
Virginia on new clearings ofhiek-
DRY, oak and huckleberry growth,
everything a porous. gravelly, yell
low clay or sandy subsoil: the
minerals are all present in the
right proportion in the loan, az
left through the decay ofpreyious
vegetable growths, and hence the
plant will absorb its actual needs
and no more, the food Of its
own strains being amply abund-
ant to supply all its refined con-
stitutional demands, hence the
Importance Of cultivating shall
low, so as not to go below the
vegetable loan, stirring up the
mineral suJsOil, that would Ger.
tainly make the growth rank, in.
sipid and rsspy. The land
ought TO IT, cleared at least six
months before cultivation Of all
timber, roots. etc. PIow in the
fall to give it the benefit Of the
mell0wing and dissolving frosts
Of winter. When the first vegeta-
ton puts in its appearance in the
spring, plow again. always shaI.
low. check off and make the hills.
applyingb'fOre planting two dou.
bic handfuIs uf hen house compost
or pulverizetl cow pen manure
we'll mixed in and around the bin.
We have found better results
from hickory, oak and huckleber-
~ soils than any other for the
fancy colors, and what does this
growth Ui hickory, oak and buck
leberry imlicate as CONDENSED
plant food and flavor existing in
the veg"iabI" mould? Hickory
wood and oak are both elastic.
hence the plant gets the elements
Of pliability and toughness, the