Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-02-06
SOUTHERN AGRICULTURAL.
TOBACCO CULTURE.


Few Hints ON the Subject For tho
Coming Season.
The following hints on the subject OF
tobacco-culture are taken from cir
cular prepared by Colonel r. L. Rag
land, of Virginia, and, as he is regarded
as very high authority on the subject,
may prove entertaining and valuable to
tobacco-growers:
The tobacco plant thrives best in o
rich, warm, well-drained soil, and can be
successfully grown from the equator to
beyond the fiftieth parallel of latitude,
showing most wonderful adaptation to
climate.
Beyond any other field crop grown, to-
bacco requires high farming" l. e.,
heavy manuring and thorough tillage;
and no crop responds more readily or
bountifully, when the right types are
planted on soils adapted thereto, and the
product properly cultivated, cured and
handled.
SOILS ADAPTED TO TYPES.
A deep, rich soil OVERLAPPING a red or
dark-brown subsoiI, is best suited for
the dark, rich export type. A gravelly
or sandy soil, with red or light-brown
sub-soil, is best adapted to the produc-
ton of sweet filters and stemming to-
baccos. Alluvials and rich flats pro-
duce the best cigar stock. White Bur-
ley is most successfully grown on
dark, rich limestone soil. For yellow
wrappers, smokers and cutters, a gray,
sandy or slaty top-soil with yellowish
porous subsoil is preferable. The land
must be loamy, dry and warm, rather
than close, clammy and cold; and the
finer and whittier the sand therein, the
surer the indication of it's thorough
adaptation to the yellow type. The
soil so greatly affects the character and
quality of the products that success is
attainable only where the right selec-
ton of both soil and variety is made for
each plat planted, and planters do we'll
to heed this suggestion.
VARIETIES SUITED FOR THE SEVERAL
TYPES.
For dark, rich shipping, nothing has
been found superior to the following:
James River Blue Prior, Lacks or Beat.
All and Medley Prior. For sweet fill
ers: Sweet Oronoko and Flanagan. For
stemming: Long Leaf and Broad Leaf
Gooch, Hester, Tuckahoe and Big Orc
noko. For mahogany wrappers: Pri'
mus, Tuckahoe, Hobgood, Yellow Prior
Flanagan and Gold Leaf. For cutters
Hyco, White-stem Oronoko, Yellow Orc
nolzo, Silky Prior and Granville Yellow.
For yellow wrappers and filters: Ster-
ling, Primus, Granville Yellow, White
stem Oronoko, Tuckahoe, Hester, Long
Leaf Gooch, Yellow Oronoko and Vel
low Prior.
Trial will determine what variety il
best for any locality, as no one variety
is best for all locations. To plant va
rieties unsuited to the type, or on sol
unadapted thereto, is to invite failure
every time.
The leading cigar varieties are: Con
necticut and Pennsylvania Seed Leaf
Imported and American Grown Havana
General Grant, Bradley Broad Leaf ant
, several Spanish Strains.
START RIGHT.
The planter should select and prepar
| land suited to the type he purposes t.
raise, and then sow seeds of varietie
recommended herein for the types speci
, fed, in good time, on beds thorough
3 prepared and fertilized-warm southern
and southeastern slopes preferred--an
cover the beds with thin canvas.
South of 81 deg north latitude see
. may be sown from 18th of December t.
10th Of March-the month of Januar
preferable. Further north, sow later
Sow at the rate of one ounce of seed t.
the 100 square yards, and firm the sol
with the feet or lightly brush them in
Raking buries the seeds too deep fo
successful termination. If the seet
beds are thoroughly MANFRED and cal
vased as directed, they will require bl
A little further attention, and the plant
q be ready for transplanting soon after Ii
of May. Plant no tobacco after LIST 0
July, but fill up the missing hills wit
field peas or other crop.-Farmer
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