The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1890-02-12

guano sack are there too. You will
find everything usual but the bill'
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find everything usual but the bill'
and the mortgage. You will m
these, but will find instead the l.
mas that comes only from decom-
posed vegetation, and it il always
left out by the guano men; they use
sand instead. This vegetable mat
ter mixed with your soil will grow
tobacco equal to virgin soil.
The above disposition Of the to-
bacco stalk converts it into valu-
able fertilizer and removes the great
est stumbling block from the path
of the planter. No carriage, no
housing, nor wood-hauling to cure
the stalk. 1t becomes a friend in
stead Of an enemy. The most lilo
gical and foolish businessa man can
be engaged in is cutting, carting,
housing, and burning wood to cure
tobacco stalks. We have watched
the markets and never found any
quotations on them.
4 field Of good soil suitable for
tobacco growing, if treated as above,
viii continue to improve, year after
year, with continuous crop Of to-
baceo grown on it. In setting the
plants, il am early crop is desired,
which | believe to be the best, the
ground should be raised about two
inches and some well-suited stable
manure or guano should be used to
start the plant. The fall plowing is
of great Service, as the frost pulver-
ICES the soil and is serviceable in
destroying the germsof cut and 9TH
er worms that prey upon tobacco
and makes it so difficult to get a
stand in the spring. Just before
setting out the plants the plow
should be run back and forth
through the ridge to thoroughly
mix tie decayed stalk with the soil.
III about four years time, a field
thus treated will grow !, 600 pounds
To the acre The August cured
leaves will rival any tobacco in wax
III flavor ever grown on virgin soil.
The plants must not betopped lower
than 16 leaves. As thesoil increas-
= IN fertility the plant can be set a
little closer together, or the leaves
will get too large and the stems be
coarse. CIumps Of jimpson should
liz carefully planted on elevated and
conspicuous places. They should
receive the care and early planting
reqnirs be ready for the June crop
Of tobacco flies. Twenty-Five cent
worth Of cobalt and sugar mixed
with water and a few drops put into
the open blossom will Keep mere
worms of your tobacco than you
can pick of with twenty-five dollars.
Removing the lower, or bottom
leaves as fast as they ripen has a
tendency to push the who'e plant TO
maturity, and by the middle Of Sep
tember. long before frost, your crop
is out Of tie way. IL the leaf is
bulked closely together there is no
fear Of it losing color.as the damp
air cannot get into it, but there is an
improment IN color and flavor the
longer 1t lays. The early cure will be
ready for work by the first Of jan
uary. The August cures will rival
any foreign grown stock for cigars
filters, and will bring the whole
world to Virginia and the two Caro-
linas for filters and fancy tobaecos
We have carefully read Mr.. X.
B. DAVIS views on curing tobacco.
| | find that he agrees with me in
thinking that great mischief is done
in the curing barn by too much
heat. | have given this subject
great attention, perhaps more than
any other man in the country. l
| know that tobacco to heat oyer $50
degrees has not the texture nor
| weight Of tobacco cured at 1876 de-
grees. Therichest, highest favored
| tpbaeeo found anywhere is the eva
lporaled tobacco cured separate from
lise s.aIk aud dried in a continuous
lcurrent Of rarilied air; grown on
Eeither virgin soil or old land and
Icurcd In d heat not exceeding 135
degrees, q vast Improvement over
.lsun cure. W. II. sSow,
j High Point.N.C,