Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-05-23
New Books.


CURE. MARKETING AND MANU-
FACTURE. a Practical Handbook
on the Most Approved Methods of Grow
ing Harvesting, Curing. Packing and
Selling Tobacco; Also. OF Tobacco Manu-
facture. BY j. Il. Killebrew. a. NJ, Phi.
D., and Herbert Myrick. b. S. Pro-
fusely illustrated. New York: Orange
Judd Company. 1897. Pages sos. Pur-
pie Cloth Decorated.
What great changes have taken place
in Virginia in the tobacco industry, in
regard to the localities of its cultivation
and the places of it's sale, within the
recollection of some of our readers! one
Of them recently told us that when he
was a boy his grandfather was quite
large tobacco-planter within eleven miles
of Fredericksburg. He had his own
coopers, who made his hogsheads and
a large central barn near his residence.
The barn was framed and weather-board-
ed, and had a very sloping roof TO
make sure of keeping out the rain, and
was at least equal to three good stories
in height. 1t used to be filed up to its
top with hanging tobacco, which had
were other log tobacco-houses on differ
ent parts Of the plantation. The GEN.
trail barn was shielded on two sides for
granaries and stables fer the family
horses, and a part Of those for the
farm. and there were stables In other
places. He also at that time raised
cotton enough for his own uses, and
had it spun. dyed, and woven on his
premises. He also had his tannery,
shoemakers, wheelwrights. blacksmiths,
and a race-track. But in a few years
he had abandoned tobacco. and had re-
course to wheat, rye, oats, peas, and
corn and fine orchards. Large quanti-
ties of cider were given, with their ash
cakes, to the negroes, and many barrels
of good vinegar sent TO market, but TO
his credit, he never had a still.
This grandfather had a friend, "Cousin
Billy Harrison" who raised tobacco in
CSroline county, below the Bowling
Green and some distance from Port
Royal, which was probably his shipping
port. cousin Billy had n mill. whose
pond, about a mile from his hospitable
home, furnished him and his guests
with a superabundance Of voracious
mosquitoes. SO that in their season a
large bonfire was klndled in the evening
in the houseyard, and the refuse OF the
tobacco houses consumed in order to
keep off the musical depredators.
cousin Billy" too gave up tobacco.
but his pests hardly gave him up, as he
still held on to his mll-pond.
Our informant also told US that when
he was a youth at school in Fredericks-
burg. there was hardly a leaf Of to-
bacco brought thither for sale, and that
he used to play under the sheds that
once protected large numbers of hogs
heads. but were then decaying and
empty. except for a few tobacco sticks
and the high-seated, non-used "ducking
gig" or "ducking stool" which had
been handed down from former genera
ton.
In the handsome volume before us the
two expert authors and their coadjutors
have rendered a valuable service 10 the
great tobacco industry, in all its phases;
and the Dispatch welcomes il cordially
because it's own lively interest in the
tobacco trade has long been conspicuous.
The work is profusely illustrated, and
its pictures, even when not very clear
and distinct, are expressive and helpful.
One represents "a Tobacco-Fleld IN Ola
Virginny," with male and female la
| borers.
The contents OF the work are systema-
In handling or using tobacco. from its
seed to its most approved form for con-
sumption. will be pleased and instructed
| by them.
The authors defend the use OF the weed
very warmly, and so so far as TO declare
| that but for It the settlement of Virginia
would never have been successful. Pro-
badly their enthusiasm makes a strain
upon history.
On the title page. the opportunities Of
becoming admirably qualified for the
work which the authors have so well
executed are stated, and they were rare,
indeed
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