The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1894-03-02
TIA KIND OF SEED.

TIA KIND OF SEED.
Great care should be taken in
obtaining the best kind of seed
without mixture. We know that
tobacco plants Of different kinds OF
tobacco will cross as readily as
corn of different kinds or broom
corn and sorghum. God in infn-
tie wisdom has arranged it thus
that the pollen from the blossom of
one plant fsrtilizes the bloom OF
another and acts as male, and as
plants cannot travel like animals,
this is provided for by bees and in
sects passing from one flower 20
another and carrying the fertilizing
dust from plant to plant. Thus We
see tobacco may be crossed even
from field to field, or in fact as far
as the same bee or insect may
range, and II green, worthless
kind of tobacco grows in one field.
the White stalk in the adjoining
field is not safe from the damaging
feet Produced. We say damag.
ing, because the cross will not pro.
duce either kind, but bastard
stalk will be the result, more worth
less than even the green tobacco.
And it is well understood by tobac.
co growers generally that the green
kinds OF tobacco never pay the cost
If producing them if air-cured.
The tobacco grower would do well
% procure his seed from a part Of
he country where there are none
II the old green kinds of tobacco
'aised, as the danger of mixture is
70 great.
PUTTING ON THE CANVAS.
Setup planks either three or four
widths of the canvas, namely nine
II twelve feet apart, if the canvas
5 yard wide, parallel to each
'ther, and stake them solid; then
Jet other boards at the ends of the
beds and stake as before. Drive
stakes along in the middle Of the
BED, the first and last stakes being
lbout the same distance from the
md plsnks that they are from the
'ide planks; if the bed is "a feet
ong the row Of stakes will be II
'tes long; nail pole or strip of
lumber on the top OF the stakes;
he stakes should be two feet high,
his is to keep the canvas from set
ling down on the plant bed; this
bed II by "a feet will lake four
strips of canvas eight yards long or
yards sew the pieces to-
yether so as to make one large
piece II by "a. Cover the bed with
he canvas drawing it tightly SO
that it will not sag down on the bed
and tack it to the planks at the
edges of the bed, sprigs of nails or
sparrow-bill tacks arc the best,
driven along on or near the top Of
the planks to hitch the canvas
over them, which will be easily re.
moved when it become necessary to
weed the beds. The beds should
be kept clear Of weeds and grass by
removing the canvass and pulling
them out by hand, taking great
care not TO destroy the young
plants.
THE AMOUNT of PLANT SEEDS.
As your success in growing to-
bacco depends on the amount of
good, healthy plants in great
measure, we have taken great pains
to give a correct and accurate plan
20 raise them. 1t will require
about 5000 plants TO set an acre,
allowing the rows of tobacco to be
three and one-half feet apart and
the plants two and one-half feet
apart along the row (this distance
has been found to be the best dis
lance allowing on hillside land a
level measurement.) If The land is
thin the stalks will have space
enough, snd if the land is very
rich it will be enough crowded to
prevent it flom growing coarse and
o. a dark color. The exact mum.
Der of plants will be 1890 to the
acre, allowing from the effect of
worms and insects and the beat Of
the sun, that it will require two
thousand to reset and get a com
plete stand we have about 1000 as
the amount required for one acre.
Then if we wish TO plant ten acres
we must have 10000 plants, And
as the largest first plants in IA he
do the best and produce the ors.
stalks of tobacco we should have
room to select those best plants
leaving at least half the plants Of
each bed when done setting these
may do to fall back on in an ex.
IRENE case. Thus we hava the
SUN Of 10000 plants !;
this will require as mach Us III
feet square TO each acre of ground