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

Try paris green on your sucke
crop mix it with plaster, one pound
of Paris green to two pounds OF
palster It will kill feas, grass
hoppers or worms. Commence Using
it early before the plant has attained
much growth.
Dead ripe tobacco is bat little or
no account; in fact, the experienced
buyer can tell it a long way off. Cut
when the top leaves have attained
their growth.
Don't cure tobacco where the
chickens frequent, but selec: nice
clean room.
In moist weather some tobacco
will spoil, be careful and 60 through
the barn every day. Gently press a
handful of leaves together with the
hand, let 60 gently and if they open
out gradually no danger need be
apprehended but if they stick to-
gether a fire, not smoke, is needed.
No one can afford to grow binder
tobacco out Of the Vuelta de Abajo
leaf; the price will always be too
low to admit of any profit.
Bear it in mind that manure dis
appears when you have grown to-
bacco this year.
Cultivate your sucker crops equal
ly as we'll as you did the original
crops: it will paw we'll to do so.
The call now is for light colored
tobacco, especially in wrappers.
The old, heavy, dark sorts do not
sell we'll any more.
Light colored soils produce the
lightest colored leaf, dark colored
soil puts more nicotine into the pro-
ducts.
In nine cases out Of ten the Sec
ond crop on the same land will pro-
duce finer quality of leaf. Florida
without frosts is the place to test it.
When hanging put the good to-
gether, the poor likewise. Don't try
to hide defects; the packer and
buyer will easily detect them.
Let every tobacco grower get up
an unenviable reputation for his
crops. Let it be known to the world
that Middle Florida produces a tip
top. letter A, No. l Cuban tobacco.
Now is the time to commence to es
tablish this reputation.
Tobacco put up right will sell it
self every time.
To the officers and members Of the
Tallahassee Alliance: We suggest
the propriety of your making every
other meeting Of your order an open
one and admit one and all who are
in sympathy with you and indorse
the Ocala platform, previous to the
open door meeting a program might
be arranged by your members and
from time to time discuss all mat
ters relating to the farm. What say
you, gentlemen
Eve must educate" Let this be
the prevailing sentiment formost in
the mind of every go-aheal farmer
when he meets his slow plodding
neighbor.
An Illinois farmer says 81 have sold
half Of my farm, but my barns need
to be just as large as ever This is
suggestive, and land poor land own
ers would do we'll to take a pattern
Oft of the statement made.
Sitting in a city or town and farm.
ing out in the country by the sweat
Of negro's brow will be an uphill
business in Middle Florida for all
time 10 come.
Too many people with one cotton
talent farming in Florida. They
are the ones that sell corn for 35 cents
cotton seed for Is cents and buy i,
back five months thereafter for 81. 1C
and 80 cents.
Frequently we are asked Who
is to be the next president, and oul
views On many Of the political as
pirants now cropping out. Being
out Of politics from the start this de
partment cannot be led into it TO-
love or money under any circum
stances. We are here to better
the condition OF the toiler in Middl,
Florida-it is specific work w
have set about and our labors ar,
too serious to have dirty polite
mixed with them. Privately we e
for politician when we feel like it