The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-03-20
FARM, FIELD, GARDEN.
A Lewis County Mans Success
in Growing Tobacco.
IMPROVING THE MeR,No SHEEP.
American Mule Breeders Improving On
spain-Ths Partridge Cochin
Skunks I'm the Hop Fields.

TOLEDO, March I've need some kind
of merchantable plant to be grown be-
tween the rows Of our young fruit trees in
our orchards for the first two or three
years, until they commence to bear. To
raise vegetables does not pay in the greater
part of our state, on account Of Chinese
competition and the lack of market facili-
ties. This brought me to the idea to try
cultivatlng the most valuable kinds Of
tobacco. If this will turn out success
fully-so thought-it will help to remove
the greatest obstacle to the charging Of
our fruit growing industry. know pretty
well that tobacco growing is exhausting to
the soil. But know at the same time
that men of small means are not able to
wait four or five years until they will earn
the first fruit from their trees, and know
even as well that We will be able to replen.
ish the soil, for that We have taken from
it. by then using artificial fertilizers. By
growing the CORRECT kinds of tobacco We
will probably earn sufficient means to buy
fertilizers in abundance. To establish an
rule not to use during the first two or
three years after planting the space be-
tween the rows of the trees in our orchards
for other crops, means to exclude a very
numerous class of our best citizens from
the fruit growing business. This will not
do. and therefore every proposition en-.
abling Us to enlarge the number of our
fruit growers in our state should find the
support of our press and the community.
Since four years l have undertaken to
cultivate in this part of our state the su-
perior kinds of tobacco. I succeeded last
year to raise the most celebrated Turkish
or Latakiah tobacco, which comes from
Syria, in Asia Minor, and is sold in the
European trade at 81 to s. q pound;
further, the Brazil or La Plata tobacco,
also a very valuable kind. have had a
first-class result. There is no difference
at all in regard to flavor and quality be-
tween the imported tobacco and the leaves
grown here. / am we'll satisfied, thor
oughly convinced, that climate and soil of
the Cowlitz valley, where am living, are
exceedingly favorable to raise the above
named very valuable kinds of tobacco,
and believe that We may raise here al
most every other kind of 1t also. It is .
fact long established In this part of the
state that Virginia, Connecticut, Seedleaf
and Havana are doing first rate here, but
they have been raised till now only for
home use.
90 not See any reason why Otnof parts
of the state should not be lifted for to-
bacco culture even a. well as this one here.
have distributed already self-grown seed
of the La Plata and Latakiah to a number
Of friends all over the Coast. Only a little
of the seed of the Latakiah, and even less
Of the La Plata. is left yet, which, SO far
as it will reach. am ready to for ward to
those friends of good tobacco who want
to try to cultivate it also a. an expert
menc please mail 10 cents for postage
and expenses.) The seed should be sown
right away, In box containing good,
loose soil, scarcely covered over. and put
in . sheltered, sunny place. 1t will
sprout within from three to five weeks.
The time of planting is from the middle
of April to the end of June. Select we'll
prepared, deep, fertile ground, not freshly
MANFRED. distances 3kx3K feet: an ele-
waited location secures higher quality of
leaves. Tobacco grown on bottom lands
contains too much of nicotine and has no
flavor. K. LUDLoTB.