The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-01
TOBACCO NOTES.

ance, superstition and the voice O.
the croakers. Those who tried tC
"down us" ought to feel cheap-dirt
cheap.
When farmer has bale of dog
tailed cotton for sale, does he expect
to get as much for it as for a nice
clean picked bale? Think of this, TO-
-bacco growers, as an illustration and
strive hard to have no "dog-tailed'
tobacco, but, instead, clean, silky
perfect wrappers.
To the colored farmer who thinks
it best to quit work Friday after.
noon so as to get ready to "go to
town" Saturday, does no work Sun.
day and generally speaking is not in
very good whack" Monday fore
noon, did you ever think that vine.
gar, even, has to work to be worth
anything?
Break off the suckers two or three
times before ripening.
Cut your tobacco little green
instead of overripe
Hold leaf between your eye and
the sun; if it will do to cut there will
be more light places than other
wise.
A pony saw is very good thing
to cut tobacco.
Cut all the tobacco you can after
4 p. m; by a. m. next day it will
be wilted and pliable and little or no
damage of tearing while hanging.
Leaf tobacco and cigars cannot be
injured by being processed too much
or too long, for when the nitrogen or
the raw, rank, sharp elements Of the
leaf or cigar are all fermented out
the process stops for want of food or
termentable matter to live on;
Never attempt to move tobacco
from the field until it is pliable 80
that when it strikes anything in
handling it will not break or tear.
If you know of farmer that
succeeds better than you do look
over the fence and see how he does
it.
No agricultural country can pros
per where agriculture does not
flourish.
The most important point in
topping is to do it in an even manner.
For all that has been said and
done to discourage the use of cigar
cites, their production and consump-
ton constantly increases, as does
the consumption of tobacco in all it's
forms.
A stalk that has been allowed to
blossom should be top about four
leaves higher than one in the button.
ID. J. Barnett, of Crossville, Ga,
set out his tobacco plants two years
ago and raised a good crop OF
tobacco. Last year the old stalks
suckered cut and made better tobac-
co than they did the year before,
and this year they have suckered
out again, and bid fair to make
another good crop.
Many of our growers have finished
cutting while others are half done.
June planted tobacco like ours is no.
where's near cutting time and had
the rain not come as it did last
Wednesday no telling when cutting
time would have come to those who
planted late.
A cigar of fine quality, taste and
aroma cannot be made from raw,
fieshy, uncured tobacco.
Havana tobacco is imported into
this country and kept in cool, moist
cellars, where it cannot ferment, and
thus improve its quality. If it be
stored in the upper floors of the ware
house, the air is so dry that fermen.
tation cannot 60 on as it should.
For weeks past Marshal Isler has
been confined to his bed with to-
bacco cutting time at his door. His
brother came to his rescue and We
expect, if he was little slow in Join
ing the procession last spring, in the
future he will be Simor-pure to
bacco grower.
We had a first rate tobacco in
struction meeting at Lake Hall las
Saturday in DR.. Radford's beautiful
live oak grove. A stand decorated
in front with growing tobacco plant,
in pots was built. On the sides O
the same were tall stalks of corn an(
the star spangled banner in differen
sizes f1uttering to the breeze. Their,
were plenty of seats and when tn,
audience had assembled in front O
the stand DR.. Radford, as presiden
Of the meeting, proceeded in hi
unique way to introduce Henry j
Fenton tobacco agent of the F. G. 4
L. r. R., who had been invited t,
address the assemblage, during hi
address he illustrated tobacco cut
ting, harvesting and curing in plail
and instructive manner. At all O
our tobacco meetings last winter W
quoted this gentleman frequently an,
promised to have him present at cut
ting time. After he closed his re
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