The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-30
Tobacco Growing in Georgia.
Concluded from Last Issue.)

Tobacco Growing In Georgia.
Concluded from Last Lstle)
VARIETIES FOR DIFFERENT TYPES.
The variety must be suited to the type
which the planter intends to produce.
Usually the character of the soil determines
what type should be produced, and then
that variety must be Sc iected which is hes
for that type. For yellow wrappers
"brights"- and filters, Hester, Long Leaf
Gooch and Yellow Oronoc0 are considered
among the best, and these will also produce
due proportion Of mahogany wrappers,
cutters and filters. although still other va
rieties are recommended for the last three
grades. James River, Blue Prior, Lacks or
Beat-all and Medley Prior are recommended
for dark-colored thick leaf shipping grades
White Burnley does well on limestone soils.
The Hester and Long Leaf Gooch are
especially recommended, because of their
adaptabilIty to a wider range Of soils than
other varieties. Actual experiment alone
will determine what variety is best suited
to a particular soil.
After giving the old fashioned or stand
ard" method OF preparing and wing plant
beds, the bulletin then gives new way
as follows:
"On the station farm the following
method of terminating tobacco SEEDS was
perfectly successful: About ten days before
the date it is desired for the plants to come
up provide a few ordinary small wine
glasses, and place ia each one a heaping tea
spoonful of tobacco seed. Pour on enough
water to cover the seed and let stand half
an hour. Then pour off the wa ter. place
the glass in a saucer containing water and
inverU over the wine glass a common glass
tumbler. This confines the moistened seed
in damp atmosphere Place the saucer
on a mantel in warm room. Every day
remove the covering tumbler and add q
few drops OF water to the seed so as to keep
them sensibly moist. Watch also for indi-
cations of sprouting of the seed using if
necessary a small magnife-. In a
week or less the tiny seed will
burst their coats and the sprouts will
appear. Then mix the seeds with little
fine. leached ashes, or plaster, and SOW in a
bed prepared for Them as already described.
Or bed may be prepared in any convenient
place where the soil Is light and rich and
free from weed seeds. and made mellow and
fine. Open drills four inches apart by press
ing very lightly into the soil the sharpened
edge OF piece OF lath (V-shaped), SOW the
seed thinly, and then sweep over the bed
lightly with whisk broom and press firmly.
Cover with cloth laid on the surface, and
sprinkle water on the cloth every day III
weather be dry until the seeds come up,
WHICH tuey VIII 10 IN lew uayS. linen
raise the cloth and fasten to the sideboards
az before directed. So soon as the plants
have four leaves thin out to one or two
plants every inch or so.
"This plan was tried with perfect success
the past year. The old fashioned bed was
first prepared and seeds sown at the usual
time. January. The new plan was tried by
preparing bed in q convenient place on
the frs day OF May and sowing the sprouted
10 fha do and ~
drawn and transplsnted from this bed dur
ing the last days of May, or within four
weeks from the time they were sown.
But whatever plan be adopted the plants
should be large enough for transplanting
to the field by the first day of April. II
this new method be tried the bed should be
prepared and the seeds sprouted and sown
about the last week in February. We do
not, however, recommend beginner to
rely solely on this last described method of
securing plants, but only as supplemental
to the old plan, and experimental"
Then comes directions for preparing the
land and fertilizing:
PREPARING THE LAND.
"Second or third years land Is the best
for bright tobacco. Plow the ground deep
and close in January. Repeat the blowing
in February. About the latter part OF
March open furrows about 81 feet apart.
deposit the fertilizer in these burrows and
list up as il for cotton. The fertilizer should
be well mixed with the soil by running a
scooter plow once or twice In the open fur
rows. Remember that thorough prepara-
ton of the soil is half the battle The fer
tilizer may be good, we'll rotted stable
manure or the same composted four or five
weeks beforehand, with cotton seed meal
and cotton seed hull ashes, or with sulphate
of potash. Stable manure alone is
a.,1 -
good quality and plenty OF IL, moth
ing more is essential But a high
grade, ammoniated superphosphate. having
3 CT per cent. of potash, will answer very
we'll especially on soils that are inclined to
be too dark and heavy for bright tobacco.
The potash should not be IN the form of mu-
rate nor kainit, as the chlorine is found to
be injurious to the burning quality of the
tobacco. Sulphate of potash or hull ashes
are better.
1.-THE results of experiments inVirginia in
dicate that tobacco prefers its supply of
added nitrogen In organic forn-dried
blood, fish scrap, etc. In Georgia cotton
seed meal is the most convenient source of
organic nitrogen.
THE following formula is recommended:
FORMULA FOR ToBAcCo-oNE ACRE.
Cotton seed meal. ......-......2C0 to $50 pounds
Acid phosphate ........ LOU to 20 pounds
Sulphate of potash. ........ so to 20 bounds
or cotton seed hull ash. .....1O0 TO i2) pounds
1.-THE smaller amounts should be applied to
fresh, or comparatively fresh, lands, and the
larger to worn or thin soils. In the case Of
old or much worn or very thin soils the
cotton seed meal may be increased, the
others remaining the same"
The remainder OF the bulletin is devoted
TO directions for transplanting. cultiveting.
printing, topping, suckering aud finally,
harvesting, curing aud grading the crop
But Is those operations are yet several
months In the future, we give only those
portions relating 20 preparing plant beds
aud land. varieties, fertilizers, etc.-Bulte-
tin No 10, Georgia Experimental Station,
Experiment, Ga.
Preparing soil for Pscans With