The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-03-26
TOBACCO NOTES.

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trashy tobacco will not come this way. bu
}. the buyers who are in quest Of good, first
" class wrappers will be plenty.
If With a lot of cut off roots and tn.
g weather hot your tobacco plant will surely
= die, then you will say the cut worms did it
= If your tobacco field bakes after heavy
, rain start the cultivator Immediately.
1t will soon be time to set tobacco plants
and our experiments lead US to believe
that plant should not be less than fou,
inches high and not over six inches. Be
: sure that the plants have healthy look
and are blocky in appearance. Discard all
OF the spindling, pipe-stem kind, they wilt
too easily and give evidence that they have
not been properly cultivated. The man
ner that cabbage or colard plant is set
may be safely followed in tobacco setting.
Secure stick about the size of a broom
handle and have it blunt at both ends and
be sure that the hole made with it ia no
deeper than one wishes to set the plant i.
nearly up to the bottom leaves is best.
Remember in tobacco setting that the
Vuelta Abajo tobacco must be set decidedly
thick. Lay off the rows three feet and set
the plants evenly 10 inches. Plants from
seed brought in this year from Cuba can be
set at least five inches closer. In Cuba
they set 12,COO plants to the acre and they
claim that the closer it is the finer the
texture. We took particular notice with
our tobacco last year that where ii was the
thlckest the fine silky texture and civ leaf
was found and where plant stood solitary
and alone it had ribs in it equal to a
parasol. This year, crowd" is the way we
intend TO plant.
Get perfect and early tobacco stand 80
you can harvest the crop before the rainv
season fairly sets in is our advice. and if
only small acreage is to be planted and
the owner is anyways near water bring it
to the ground by the bucketful and immerse
each plant in the bucket before placing it
in the ground, then make loblolly in the
hole; in fact regular little puddle of wa.
ter all around the roots.
We are glad to know that there ar 9
many farmers who have grown tobacco
and are making ready to grow the weed
who recognize our good purposes in their
behalf. Time and again they have told US |
that they overlook all imperfections and |
heartily recognize our good purposes and
hardl honest work. They encourage US
with the right hand of fellowship. With. |
out their kind expressions in the tobacco |
campaign we have inaugurated we could |
not be content.
Ii you intend to grow tobacco this year
stick this on your tobacco barn door:
Leaves well developed-veins delicate
texture flne-surface soft and silky, oily
touch and mahogony colored leaves.
Any farmer after two years, experience
can become a thorough and practical
tobacco grower, ifhe gives it his immedi. |
ated attention. The first year will, to a |
great extent, be an uphill business.
In 1879 every pound of tobacco found in |
florida could only make the figures, g..
1872, 80 says the late census.
1tshould be matter of encouragement to |
every farmer who intends to grow tobacco
this year to study the late census. As
many doubtless have not we will briefly |
state for their benefit. The average price
paid to all other growers for their crop
was cents, while you Of Florida received
% cents pound If these facts do not
bolster" you up then we shall always
think they "oughter."
louisiana with her famous perique is the
only slate in the Union that gets az manv
cents per pound for her tobacco as Florida |
does.
In 1859, says the census, Florida pro-
duced 828,815 pounds of tobacco, but lust |
about that time Of the day the grower "let |
all hollis 90" and went for cotton, the war
came on and cotton prices were great-bip
consequently the farmers raised 1t for all |
that was ont, but they overdid the fleecy
staple: they made it king, but many king
has been dethroned, 50 has cotton.
Now We have concluded to commence
where the old farmers left off; but
we hope that we will not make a king
out of tobacco too previously.
A doubtful article of tobacco seed is high
at any price. dear if given away, to the re- |
ceiver. We know of quite a number who
have sown untried seed when they could |
have procured, from their neighbors, seed
that had been tested and proved success.
We fear the results
Much of the cigar leaf soil is deficient in