The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-20
RALEIGH, N. c., APRIL 20, 1897.

cesslve quantity Of nitrogen in the soil
produces rank, coarse, heavy weed
containing large per centage Of nico-
rlne. Such tobaccos have not the most
delicate favors nor do they burn well
Limestone and heavy clay lands pro-
duce strong, coarse tobacco with a
large per cent. of nicotine. The per cent.
of nicotine in the leaf is greatest just
as it attains maturity, ana much of it
can be driven off by the various pro-
cess of fermentation incident to curing
and manufacture.
The marketable part Of the plant is
the leaf stripped Of its mid rib, or CEN
tral stem, and varieties differ widely as
20 the size of this central system and
consequent waste. In some varieties
it is less than II pounds in each 100
pounds, while in others it is more than
81 pounds in each 100.
Smoking tobaccos bring the highest
prices, and bright chewing tobaccos
rank next.
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS
At the Michigan Station ten lots of
lambs, 10 in each lot, as nearly even in
size and quality as could be gotten,
we're fattened on ten different combina
tions of feed stuffs, with the following
results:
Those fed ration of corn, roots, and
clover hay gave net profit of 81 50
each; those fed corn, roots, and alfalfa
gave net profit of 81, SO each; those
fed on corn, roots, and mixture OF
clover and millet hay gave net profit
of 81 68 each; those fed corn, roots and
nillet hay gave a net profit of ST. 46
Zach; those fed corn, roots, and a mix
Sure of clover hay and oats straw gave
net profit of 81 66 each; those fed
corn, roots, and straw gave net profit
of 81 66 each; those fed corn, roots,
clover hay and corn stalks gave net
profit Of 81 80 each; those fed corn,
roots, and corn stalks gave net profit
of 81 SO each; those fed corn, roots,
clover hay, and bean straw gave net
profiS of 81 81 each; those fed corp,
roots, and bean straw gave net profit
of 81 63 each.
The corn was a yellow dent variety,
the roots were rootabagas, and the
FSaover, alfalfa, millet, and straw we're
of average quality. The corn stalks
we're cut into lengths of to 8 inches on
an ensilege cutter. ALI feeds we're pro,
duced on the station farm and an ad.
joining farm and are charged at mar,
ket prices.
DR.. CARRIER, Swiss scientist, gives
the following causes for tainted milk
Bad fodder, bad water, bad air, un-
cleanliness in caring for milk and YES
sells, keeping milk too long, bad ventila,
tion and high temperature in the stor,
age room, neglecting to aerate and cool
the milk as quick as drawn, slow trans
portation, sick COWS and COWS in heat,
81. NJ. Fugel, a farmer and expert
miller, of Missouri, tells Farmers In
stitute that wheat should not be har
vested till thoroughly ripened. Such
wheat keeps better in shock, stack, OF
bin, and it makes much better foul
than that harvested in the dough stage
of the grain. 1t will look somewhat
shrunken, but in milling, the brar
fakes off more easily, the -four is whitel
and rises better in the oven than thai
from the smooth, plump wheat cut
earlier. The best -four also comes from
wheat which has gone through the
sweat while yet in the straw. All Wheat
sweats, either in the stack or bin, anG
the gain in quality by having it swea
in the straw will more than pay fol
stacking rather than threshing from
the shock.
TOBACCO MARKETS.