The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-01-19
WEALTH IN TOBACCO.
Senator Mayheid Cloars Ono Hundred
Dollars Dor Acro on It

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To the Editor of The News and Cour
Ter: 1 have had so very many inuuir.
les about raising tobacco that it is inn
possible for me to answer, so turn to
your columns to give the desired infor-
nation. take 1t that you will gladly
give the space, for The News and
Courier irst urged upon the people of
South Carolina to plant tobacco, and
especially will you give aid through
your columns to anything which tends
to build up the material prosperity of
the country.
Select slOping place with southern
exposure near a br anch or pond. Burn
the ground thoroughly by placing on
the bed dry wood or brush to depth
OF an inch. Then take a mattOck and
dig the ground, rake it and get all the
clods broken and all the roots out. Lay
off the land or bed up the hill in rows
eight feet wide. From the centre of
furrow pull the earth up towards the
centre of your row, so as TO raise the
middle three or four inches. The form
er furrowS will be a drain taking off
the water from the centre ct the bed
and q path, so that in pulling plants
your hands can reach the centre of the
bed. Mix the seed with corn or cotton
seed meal. so as to be easily seen, and
SOW two tablespOOOsful of seed to the
acre. Use the Hester variety grown
by IL. l.. Ragland, IIycO, Va. They
cost So per pound and one pound will
plant say fifty acres, allowing for bad
stands.
After sowing run a hand roller over
the bed and press the seed in. Set a
plank along the edges of the bed, and
on this tack cloth to cover the beds,
n fhn ala,
VIM M. Bird Il Go, Charleston, keen a
cloth for plant bed covering that costs
81 cents per yard.
Select piece of land having a fair,
open front 70 the sun will shine on it
all Gay. Should have from eight to ten
inches of Sill with good yellow clay
subsoil. Break the land well with a
two-horse plough in January; rebreak
with small scooter plough in March.
In April harrow over the land and
make 1t fine; reduce to a powder if
possible. Lay off your rows three and
4 half feet wide with a shovel plough.
In the furrow put whatever stable ma
nure can be had, and on that put from
1000 pounds to 500 pounds of +. w.
Wagener II Co.'S high grade fertilizer
same as you would use tor cotton.
name f, w. Wagener Il Cos fertilizers
because l have tried them and know
they are quick and respond readily.
Bed as you would for cotton, ONLY use
small ploughs, so as to have fat bed.
III Q plants will be ready by the Goth of
April.
Go into the woods and cut pine logs
22 by 20 feet long. Have two sides
rough hewn, leaving the bark on two
sides; then put up just as you would a
log house, making the house twenty
in tinr II
feet as you build and four feet apart
just as you erect meat or smoke
house. When the house has settled
idaub with clay. Later on I will tell
you how to put in tlueS and furnaces.
In the meantime, write Major II. L..
Ragland, Hyco. Va, for his pamphlet
on tobacco. Then do as near as YOU
can what he tells you. Get your seed
and SOW this month
planted thirty-three and one-half
acres near Denmark, Barnwell County,
and have now sold my entire crop and
l must say some of my tobacco was
poor, but the larger portion was good
and some was iine-very fine. L aver
agei about l, 200 pounds to t. acre and
sold good and bad as it lay graded in
my barns for 1921 cents per pound.
might have done better, but am con-
tent to let good enough alone. l re-
ceived auout $l54 per acre. If all Of
my tobacco had been like that grown
on field of hfteen acres l would have
averaged IL TO 20 cents per pound.
But | did not know that good plough
ing and high manuring was so essen
tlal to successful tabacco farming.
You need not spend money for ex-
spensiye sticks to cure on, as / did, and
baskets, etc., but later l will tell you
how to save on this line.
One word about the kind of tobacco
to plant and what kind to plant for. |
used the Hester, and it made tobacco
which all judges pronounced fine, and
which cinnot be surpassed for wrap
pers and hllers for plug work. So ex-
pert tobacco men say, and they back
their Judgment with their money. 1t
has wonderful adaptability for soil
and climate. The American Tobacco
company has formed a trust and re.
duced the price of fine bright tobacco,
80 that that type is not now so remu-
nerat1ve as 1t once was. But mahogny
tobacco can be grown all over South
Carolina, from the coast to the noun
talns. From 800 to 1000 pounds can
be grown to the acre, according to the
condition of the soil. DO not plant the
Cuban tobacco, Is my advice, and it is
based on what the manager of Cuban
tobacco In this State told me.
Plant, for strong, oily. working tobac.
co, on land that will make half of a
bale to three-quarters of a bale of cot
ton to the acre. Manure with a quick
fertilizer and use it freely as above di-
rected and you CAL make the tobacco
and hire all of your lobor for $50 per
acre and less. have cleared at least
300 per acre. DO not put in too many
acres. Build one barn this year and
succeed, and you will plant again next
year. a barn will cure five acres.
| Respectfully,
| =. q. MAYFIELD.
Denmark, January 8, 1893.
| A Colossal Cotton Fire.
| LIVERPOOL, Jan. G.--Three COTTON
warehouses on Juniper street were
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