The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1890-02-22
SOUTHERN AGRICULTURAL.
TOBACCO CULTURE.

= rev Hints on the Subject For H.
Coming Season.
Inc following hints on the subject OF
eoDacco-culture are taken from a cir.
GUAR prepared by Colonel r. L. Rag
iand' OF Virginia, and, rs he is regarded
.s very high authority on the subject
may prove entertaining and valuable to
tobscco-growers:
The tobacco plant thriyes best in
rich, warm, well-drained soil. and can he
successfully grown from the equator to
beyond the fiftieth parallel of latitude,
showing most wonderful adaptation to
heyond any other field crop grown, to-
Dacco requires high farming" /. e.,
neavy manuring and thorough tillage;
ana no crop responds more readily or
oountifully, when the right types are
planted on soils adapted thereto, and the
handled.
SOILS ADAPTED TO TYPES
A deep. rich soil OVERLAPPING red or
oark-brown subsoiI, Is best suited for
the dark, rich export type. A gravelly
or sandy soil, with a red or light-brown
suD-soil, Is best adapted to the produc-
uon OF sweet filters and stemming TO-
oaccos- Alluvials and rich fats pro-
duce the best cigar stock. White Bur
ley Is most successfully grown ON
dark, rich limestone soil For yellow
wrappers, smokers and cutters, q gray.
sandy OF 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
inner and whittier the sand therein, the
surer the indication OF its thorough
adaptation to the yellow type. The |
soil SO greatly affects the character and |
quality of the products that success is |
attainabie only where the right selec-
fion OF both soil and variety is made for |
each plat planted. and planters do well |
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 fil-
ers; Sweet Oronoko and Flanagan. For
stemming: Long Leaf and Broad Leaf
dooch, Hester, Tuckahoe and Big Oro-
noko- For mahogany wrappers: Pri-
mus, Tuckahoe, Hobgood, Yellow Prior.
Flanagan and Gold Leaf. For cutters:
Hyco, White-stem Oronolro, Yellow Oro-
noko, Silky Prior and Granville Yellow.
For yellow wrappers and oilers: Ster-
ling, Primus, Granville Yellow, White
stem 0ronoko, Tuckahoe, Hester, Long
Leaf Gooch, Yellow Oronoko and yell
low Prior.
Trial will determine what variety L. !
hest for any locality. as no one variety
Is best for all locations. To plant va
rieties unsuited to the type, or ON soil [
unadapted thereto is to invite failure
every time. IL
The leading cigar varieties are: Con-
necticut and Pennsylvania Seed Leaf,
Imported and American Grown Havana. /
General Grant, Bradley Broad Leaf and ,
several Spanish Strains
START RIGHT. II
!. The planter should select and prepare q
ind suited TO the type he purposes to 4
Fsise. and then SOW seeds Of varieties
recommended herein for the types speci- =
led, in good time, on beds thoroughly d
prepared and fertilized-warm southern a
md southeastern slopes preferred-and 4
over the beds with thin canvas. III
South of 81 deg. north latitude seed
nay be sown from 18th Of December to 9
9th Of March-the month OF January =
'referaole. Further north, SOW later. 3
low 1T the rate Of one ounce of seed to a
he 100 square yards, and Arm the soil !,
nth the feet or lightly brush them in.
taking buries the seeds too deep for =,
uccessfui termination. II the seed =
eds are thoroughly manured and can -
ased IS directed, they will require but = =,
title further attention, and the plants !,
. ready for transplanting soon after LIST
May. Plant no tobacco after LIST of
uly. but I'LL up the missing hills with =
cid peas or other rop-Fsrmers' !" y
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