The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-06-27

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doing you destroy the millet thai
lays the egg that makes the worm
| Open cigar factory somewhere
in Leon county.
1t is not wise for growers to at
tempt too great an increase in to-
bacco acreage in any one year.
Cedar imparts an aromatic flavor
or fragrance to the leaf, which is de-
rived from the cedar, and which is
considered a very valuable addi-
ton.
The average selling price of the
Florida leaf in Quincy is % to 80
cents pound, while the northern
leaf does not bring half the
money.
Their equisites for success are good
seed, proper care and skill in cur
ing.
five allow a second growth to
take place from the old roots afte r
the stalk is cut for curing, this
growth often attains the height OF
four and five feet before it is stopped
by the frost. Such a growth is just
so much money lost to the
farmer.
Do not allow sprouts to grow
from the roots of tobacco plants,
after cutting the tobacco for curing.
Such a practice is most wasteful,
most detrimental TO the soil, most
injurious to the next crop on the
same soil.
Mr.. j. A. Bell last week received
crop of tobacco, which per acre of
$500 hills, weighed 1897 pounds per
acre. This makes an average per
hill Of nearly half pound, and sold
at $40 per Observation-Disclosures
Times.
This is $l89.7O per acre. See how
much better it is to make fine to-
bacco. Most Of our tobacco grow
ers make less than half Of that
amount per acre and sell it for half
that price per hundred, or about
$40 per charlottesville, Tobacco
Leaf.
Every pound Of good tobacco
grown in this vicinity can be sold
from IS cents to 40 cents per pound
as it comes from the dry shed. This
tobacco is peculiarly cigar tobacco,
and is not grown to compare in quail
ity at any place in the North.
The ordinary growth Of tobacco is
very exhaustive to the soil, as it ex-
tracts in very large quantity valuable
fertilizing Ingredients. 1t drains the
land of those constituents which
have to be supplied by costly artifi-
cial fertilizers. Phosphoric acid,
ammonia, and potash are thus with
drawn inlarge quantities. But in this
casethere is a return to the farmer
from the sale Of the cured tobacco
leaf.
Four years ago the people of
Gadsden had all of their eggs in the
cotton basket, and it was struggle
for them to keep the wolf from the
door. To-day the old order of things
is completely reversed, and tobacco
has made the Gadsden farmers the
most prosperous in the South.
The horn and buI-worms appear
While the plant is in it's growth and
must be quickly picked off or the
plant is ruined The horn-worm fly
can be destroyed by use Of James.
town (gmypson) weed blossoms poi
sened with cobalt. Place the bios
som in the field at night on stick
and the fly is killed by sucking the
poisone honey.
Tobacco refusc-stems and dust i
one of the richest in plant-tood Of al
waste substances available for tn,
gardener and truit-grower near tn,
larger towns. 1t has about per
cent Of nitrogen, and far exceed!
the average unleached hardwood
ashes in it's percentage of potash il
fair fertilizer for trees and sma
fruits, and for many garden crops
AS msecticide, tobacco refuse is NJ
less valuable The Ohio station ma &
stock by stepping tobacco stem
until all the strength that could b
cot out of a pound of them was cor
; centrated in a pint Of water. Thi
stock, reduced by adding severa
times the quantity of water, an
sprayed on plants infested with lice
: flea beetles, etc, destroyed the il
sects without damage to tn
: plan,s.-T. Greiner.
This Nuelta de Abajo tobacco w
: are growing is better than Cub
- tobacco Tor cigar making, as til
; Cuba lands have been worked $
many years that they are det'
Il riorating and Lecomin" exhau~lc'
: Tie use Of fertilizers, to which the
> have resorttd, hr~ injured the qua
e ity. The reaS"u why our t"h>cc"
l. the best in the state III Florida l. b.