The Russellville Democrat., 1890-01-30
SOUTHERN AGRICULTURAL.
TOBACCO CULTURE.
4 Few HIats on the Subject For


 4 Few Hints on tho Subject For she
 Coming Season. The following hints on the subject sf tobacco-culturc are taken from a cir cular prepared by Colonel k. L. Rag land, of Virginia, and, as he is regarded as vsry high authority on the subject. may prove entertaining and valuable to tobaoco-growers
 The tobacco plant thrives best in . 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" i. e., heavy maturing 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 overlaying red or dark-brown subsoil, is best suited for the dark, rich export type. A gravelly or sandy soil, with red or light-brown snb-soil, is best adapted to the prodnc- tion of sweet filters and stemming to- baccos. Allnvials and rich flats pro duce the best cigar stock. White Bur ley is most successfully grown on a dark, rich limestone soil. For yellow wrappers, smokers and cutters, a gray, sandy or slaty top-soil with yellowish sr Ia must be loamy, dry and warm, rather than close, clammy and cold; and the finer and whiter the sand therein, the surer the indication of it's thorough adaptation to the yellow type. The soil 30 greatly affects the character and quality of the products that success is attainable only where the right selec- tion 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 fill CTS: Sweet 0ronoko and Flanagan. For stemming: Long Leaf and Broad Leaf Gooch, Hester, Tuckahoe and Big Oro- noko. For mahoganyM wrappers: Pri- mus, Tuckahoe, Hobgood, Yellow Prior, Flanagan and Gold Leaf. For cutters: Hyco, White-stem Oronoko, Yellow Gro noko 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 Yell low Prior.
 Trial will determine what variety is best 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.
 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.
 The planter should select and prepare land suited to the type he purposes to raise, and then SOW seeds of varieties recommended herein for the types speci- fled, in good time, on beds thoroughly prepared and fertilized-warm southern and southeastern slopes preferred-and cover the beds with thin canvas.
 South of 37 deg. north latitude seed may be sown from 18th of December to 10th of March-the month of January preferable. Further north, SOW later. Sow at the rate of one ounce of seed to the 100 square yards, and firm the soil with the feet or lightly brush them in. Raking buries the seeds too deep for successful gernination. If the seed beds are thoroughly manured and can vased as directed, they will require but little further attention, and the plants oe ready for transplanting soon after 1st of May. Plant no tobacco after 1st of July, but fill up the missing hills with field peas or other crop.-Farmers' Home Journal.