The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1892-02-03
noHAcco CULTURE.
Some Practical Points from One who
Understands the Subject.

Understands the Subject.
The tir.t move in tobacco planting, to
obtain he best results is to select a. va
riety suited to the soil where the crop Is
to be crown, and for the class of tobacco
for winch the soil is best adapted. All
classes of tobacco are cultivated mainly
alike, but require differ Mt methods OF
cure and management.
The dark, rich, export type for which
Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee were
once distinguished is no longer much in
demar and consequently decreasing in
product every year The class that of
fers the greatest .inducement to produce,
is the colory manufacturing types, wrap
pers, filters, and cutters. For this de-
sirable crop of tobaccOs it would be in
viting failure to plant the coarse, strong,
rough varieties, such as Bull-Face, Big
Frederick, Blue Pryor or Long Green,
for they are just as unsuited for fine,
silky, elastic aromatic favored tobaccOs
as seed leaf or Havana for black falls.
The soil and climate of Georgia are
adapted to high grades of domestic man
ufacturing leaf that is taking the place
of the Ozark Regies" in England and on
the continent sells for the highest prices
and pays best returns to the planter
Georgia should plant for Brights, Mo
hogames and filters, and select for these
such as have already demonstrated their
adaptation to the lands and climate of
that state We name such as have been
tested and proved available:
Conqueror, Hestor, LongLeaf, Gooch,
Yellow, Oronoke and Hyco for "Brights,"
wrappers and cullers. Flanagan for
mahogany" and Comstock Spanish for
cigars in Southern Georgia.
The five first named should all be
cured by artificial heat, that generated
by fues is best. The product of Flana-
gan sun, and air cured, makes good do
mestic chewing and smoking, but tiue
cured makes mahogany wrappers of fine
quality.
The second important move in tobacco
planting is to prepare in time curing
barns and all needed implements and
fixtures, so that there may be no delay
or hindrance to housing and curing the
crop when it becomes ripe. Tobacco is
a most eXacting crop and should receive
needed attention at the proper time
Beyond any other crop it will pay to pro
cure the services of an expert handler
curer and assorter, in districts introduce
ing tobacco planting. Nor is it good
policy to plant large crops at first until
it has been demonstrated what the capa-
bilities of soil and climate are in the di-
rection of tobacco production.
A small tobacco crop can be raised
along with cotton, under proper manage
ment as in South Carolina. Sow seed
in January and February on heavily ma
nured beds, push the growth of the
plants and plant early. The crop ought
to be set in Georgia during the month Of
April, say from the 18th to the 30th.
Cultivate rapidly so as to push the plants
to maturity and to ripen and be harvest
ed during the month of July finishing,
say by the 10th of August. In this way
the tobacco crop may be planted, cult
waited. and harvested and cured before
cotton picking time.
Let planters in middle and upper Geor-
gia select their whitest of loamy lands
for tobacco, manure heavily where the
soil is poor, plant one to one and half
acres to the laborer in tobacco Zone acre
is enough to start WITH, and see whether
tobacco is not better than cotton. BY
planting say a half crop of cotton on
the richest moist lands and tobacco on
the poor, hungry, gray soil, dry and well
drained the two crops will pay vastly
better than all cotton at eight cents per
pound.
We propose to follow up the subject in
all its details and ramificatiOns in future
to help as we best can the introduction
into Georgia of the best paying farm
crop grown in this country.
r. l.. RAGLAND,
Hyco, Va, Jan. 9, 1892.
Cough Following the Grip.