The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1890-03-05
TOBACCO.
WEST VIRGINIA
BRIGHTS.
TIESEORET OETHEIR CURE
INSTRUCTIONS AND RE-
ELECTIONS AS TO Sc
LECTINGLAND, SEE
DING, GROWING,
CURING, AND
HANDLING.

!, What Mr.. G. MI. Bird, Who A,
eragcd Over $4OO Per Aero.
Has to Say on this Impor-
tant Subject.
81 Concluded form last Week.
Tnis makes the first stage of We
liowiag Ia conjunction with wate
eighteen hours or about; a lonpe
time Is necessary with heavy Sam
tutacco. or twice the tims II the ii Il
lmrspbfre Is near frost Temperature
bar 1ilh such tobacco as raise 4
average crop years eighteen hours i,
GENERALLY sufficient if the weather i,
warm when | am ready for the dry
heat
| Now, you obs, rye that / alternste
hing up pnd suddenly cooling down
by the fac use OF spr.ukliDg water
over the door, pipes, and walls eyery
Ibfee hours for eighteen (l8) hours
ZIP TO this stage-Ehen | leave az
the water entirely, as the lug leaves
are now yellow aid will sponge or
brUwn If lot dried off TO set the color
MyobJec 10 using the water On %
this hme 70 keep the sap flowing
and 10 < ep Up the yellowing pro.
Cess, which 8 lihsteued by my method.
and arres:ed just at the proper time
10 catch the yellow color Ia the lar0.
eI potion Of tne-pisnt and also save
ihe iugs, e they are the first to yel-
low. Most curers in tr ing 10 make
a good cure of ths leaf lose the luos.
but they do not use WAGER, and me
lug brosisof ruas red bef,re the
rest of 4 9 liant is sufficiently vel |
low 70 TX Of set the col,r.
Ltt eplanter e keep in mind that
The yelh wing Of tobacco is the foun.
iatlon q . good or bad jpb Of curing
y. orcing 70 its completeness.
4 now rdn the heat up TO ITO de.
yrees to save the lugs, 30 as TO iix the
lellow c lor and keep them from,
'roEning and only let the heat re-
pain at Ito about five minutes when
draw the lire from the fiues. lei them
DOL down. and close the door, allows /
ng u 10 remain cool three or four
ours YCu will observe that l1ol
Iry heat, with water omitted durinel
hls short time, Is sufficient 10 set tbs
olor 20 the lugs, and at the sams .
Ine not sufficient 10 stop ihe yellow. !
y process Of the thicker leaves !,
6cve, and especially the Top leaves. !,
ihich are heavier and longer IN vel. !
'wing, Run the heat now "a i05 l
nd llO. and hold there for six hours, : :
from equal distances = =
rouud The bottom Of The barn. Y
The leaf shuuld be curling at tbs :
pc, or curing slowly, at this ,taoe : :
ow Advance the heat 10 fI5. nod y
'ld SIX hours. Then advance Al :, !.
y rate of two degrees per hour m. : :
ycu reach l25 degrees. Touch \ y
e Dtek Of your hand 10 the leaves. 1,
u. Y sweating or sticky, open the = 4
'oIs and lei i cool down as near as = :;
,ssible 70 loo degrees. When dried '. '.
!, raise the heat back TO 125 degrees =
q then gradually run Il up 70 I40
grees Ia six or eight hours, which VI
y aooutcufe up the leaf Shut nm I'll
INC ar vents around the bottom m
the barns and advance the heat Al hs
. rate Of five degrees per hour IN. fl
you reach l85, and hold Al tbis to
~ The talk is perfectly cured. for vi
az sap !. lett in the stalk il will ty
lersards !. b, absorbed by the dry ti'
!, lise . sponge drinking water, la
= : reak i down the stem, injurine w
market value thereby. ye
Let me caution ,ou particularlv pl
out nnctuatiDg temperature IN The fin
ing o. tobacco, Late In the fall wi
curing sudden fall Of temperature, br
! outside thermometer must be- pa
lcn y, and only so much artificial oh
y put on, taking as Tour basis pr
'urai temperature Of so degrees lee
7 instance: II you we're raising pll
e heat % The rate or Eve degrees be
nvur, AMI youf Inside thermome, SCI
registered l40, and the outside
lpcrature falling from so Al The rie
= q Eve degrees PEI hour, YOU Gu
aid simply hold the inside tber. fro
meier at 40, as that would be for
'lyalent TO au advance Of Eve de- III,
g ARTIFICIAL heat per hour. should pa
vino WIND suddenly change south, and wh
outside Thermometer regains or Tia
at fhe rate of Gva da.s.a. eve