The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-30

he raised ten acres of tobacco, but when he
came to cure it and prepare it for the trade
he discovered that the. growing OF tobacco
here and in New York were two different
matters. His crop was so strong" as to
make it practically useless for consump-
lay the difficulty. From year TO year he
experimental, changing the method OF
cultivation and gradually solving the
problem. Each year he found his crop of
better grade, and in few years found
sale for his tobacco without difficulty.
He manufactured all the tobacco he
raised for number of years into smoking
supplied about all of that article used in
California during the war period.
"In $780," said Mr.. Culp yesterday, II
found the solution to the problem upon
which | had been experimenting since
1859. raised tobacco that year that was
declared by experts to be as good as that
grown anywhere except perhaps in Cuba.
Since that time / have had no difficulty in
growing tobacco as mild as wished, and
the quality has since been SO good that L
sell it to local and Eastern cigar manufac-
turers, and they use it and sell the cigars
for Havana filler.
''For several years conducted factory
on my ranch and had tobacco and cigar
store at the corner of Market and Front
streets in this City, and 1 sold my entire
output for straight Havana filler and never
heard a complaint about the quality. Dur
ing the time / made cigars turned out be-
tween 1000, 600 and 100000 cigars year,
and sold the best grades for from sos to
SIS thousand. Since 1890 l have raised
as high as 900 acres of tobacco in year.
california l have found by experience
is better suited to the growth of tobacco
than any other State in the Union. The
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long season, so necessary to the cultlva-
ton Of the plant, with no danger of frost
at either end of it. Two crops are raised
here each year, condition which does not
obtain anywhere else in this country. The
planting is done in April and the harvest
of the first crop commences IN July. BY
the time the first crop is gathered the Sec
ond is ready and the harvesting is simply
continued.
SIN the year 1893 the aggregate value of
the Kentucky tobacco crop was SIG, 4S6, 405.
The wheat crop of California for the
same year aggregated value of SIS, All, 1874,
requiring for its production the vast terri
tory represented by $3.50, 400 acres, while
the entire tobacco crop of the United
States was grown the same year upon
702, 952 acres.
"The United States produces annually
about 500 ,0O0,0 900 pounds of tobacco. Not
withstanding this vast production we i'm
port annually from Sumatra about I5 ,0OO,-
900 pounds and about the same quantity
from the island of Cuba. In the year 1894
the manufacture of plug tobacco alone in
the United States reached the enormous
figure of 265 ,000, 900 pounds. The manu-
facture of cigars in the United States for
the same year gave a total of 1,OOO, 1000, 600.
1.-The manufacture of smoking tobacco,
cigars and cigarettes in the United States
employs a capital of thirty-fve million
dollars. Considering the superior quality
of the tobacco which California can be
made to produce, together with the supe-
rior climatic advantages it offers for its
growth, this State should absorb at least
three-fourths of this great manufacturing
industry.
1.-THE tobacco section of the island of
Cuba consists of strip of country seventy
one miles long and twenty-one miles wide.
Scattered over this territory are twelve
thousand vegas, or plantations, of thirty
acres each, only portion OF which is de-
voted to tobacco-raising, portions OF each
being used for the production of fruit and
vegetables also. The product of these
vegas however, in tobacco, yields an
annual income of twenty-three million
dollars. There are many counties in Cali
fornia which possess larger acreage than
this Justly celebrated district, which are
equally adapted to tobacco culture"
Mr. Culp is writing book on the culture
OF tobacco in California. 1t contains the
information which is the result of his
years of experience. The work is being
prepared to enable the farmers of the State
to take up the growth of tobacco with the
and without having to spend years in
learning how to raise the plant success
fully. The work is being compiled in the