The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-07-25
Horticultural and Horticultural
DEPARTMENT.
w, 81. LAWRENCE, Editor.
Lake View Farm, 6 Miles North Tallahassee


Law away carefully few OF your
finest and best hands of tobacco for
the Worlds Fair. Middle Florida's
tobacco interests must be fully repre-
sented there.
We honestly believe that the
Tallahassee tobacco warehouse will,
before October 80, contain 100000
pounds of Vuelta Abajo tobacco,
grown in Leon county during the
season of 1891.
A cool, moist cellar will improve
the quality of tobacco.
There is a process by which our
wrappers can be brought to tioe
old age and quality in from 80 to 60
days.
Six months ago corn was 35 cents
a bushel, now it is S1.1O. Who
pays for it? Jay Gould? No.
The farmers and wage workers.
Not week passes but what we are
asked here and there: "What am
/ going to get for my tobacco ?"
We answer about as follows: From
Is to 80 cents pound for filters and
from 40 cents to $1.OO for wrappers.
To a great extent the price will be
governed by the manner the tobacco
has been handled and the shape it
carries before the buyer.
A tobacco leaf full of gum and
fosh curas tho OuickaSt
The Phillips Curing company
claim that they do not wet or steam
tobacco.
Phillips says: at costs no more
to pick the green leaves from the
stalks than the dried ones, and the
curing Of the leaf on the stalk has
got to be abandoned and only the
leaf brought, into the house for
curing"
Old methods of shed-cur1ing dry
the tobacco only.
Look out for white veins, tender
leaf, mold, must, shed burn, pale
sweat spot and other damage that is
liable to occur at any time.
Proper and safe time to buy leaf
tobacco is when it can be seen cured
on the poles, or in the bulk stripped.
Then grower and buyer can agree as
to it's worth according to existing
market situations, and rates, and
neither be taking extra chances or
mourning extra risks. Hot competi
ton in trade makes it seem impossible
to do business in this way, but it is
the only safe and profitable way,
and can be made the way if buyers
so will, as they formerly did.
There is talk of cigar factory
being established at La Villa, Fla.
A mammoth new cigar factory is
soon to be established at Jackson
vile.
More than 100000 pounds OF
tobacco will be marketed at ITALIA
hassee, this coming season.
The new cigar factor, GEL Naranjo,' p
at Orlando, Fla, is doing well.
Fifteen hands, mostly Cubans, are
employed.
Judge Sharon is growing twenty
FIVE acres of tobacco in Gadsder
county. He wants no more cotton
in "his'n' at 6 cents pound. We
wish every over.producing cottor
grow er in the state could have heard
his speech on that subject at thu
last meeting of the association.
Tobacco will give you a goot
bank account-cotton never, at pres
ent prices.
The tobacco growing industry o
Gadsden county was the cause of
bank being started. They are lenien
with their patrons and carry then
when they desire to hold their GRO
for season for better prices.
The Gadsden county Tobacco
growers are joining hands with tn
Leon county growers and are givin
us lots of most excellent advice
They saw the handwriting on tn
wall and "came in"
The day is not far distant whe
the readers of the FLoRIDIAN in Mic
die Florida will see tobacco ware an
packing houses thick as cotto
gins now are.
Get ready and commence learnin
how to assert and classify Tobacco
No tobacco buyer is eligible I
membership in the Tobacco Groy
ers' Association of Gadsden an
Leon counties, Florida, and Decat,
and Thomas counties of Georgia.
To-day we will speak to the t
bacco growers of Gadsden, Leo
Decatur and Thomas counties
Jesse Darcy's school house in Goo
Bottom, just across the Georgia lin
Subject: The Cultivation of Tobac'
and the Objects and Aims to be A
tanned.
When a hand of tobacco is put ,
have all Of the leaves the san