Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1897-01-07


In North Carolina and other places
where they cure by artificial means, they
are not 50 dependent upon the seasons.
Here with our air curing we are wholly
dependent upon Divine Providence. but
there are many Improvements we can
make. In the first place. many acres OF
land are put in tobacco that are not suit
able for it; then the farmers do not take
sufficient care in making their crops;
they look more to the pounds than 20 the
| quality. think IL farmers would adop:
low topping there would not be so much
mixed tobacco in stripping. The leaves
would be more uniform In lenssh and
also in color. Now yeu take n bszss ef
tobacco, 90 to 25 leaves, You have sese-
raj different lengths and colors. II is
hard for ordinary hands TO properly as
sort such plant. Now take plant
4 tQnned down % ID To- <<ad
what difference. Any msn couid strip
and properly assort that plant of tobsc-
CO. III we can afford to spend the sum-
mer in making and the fall in saving Our
crop, surely we can afford to spend a
part of the winter and spring in proper
ly asserting and packing. I was in
barn yesterday and picked up these three
bundles of tobacco Now, we vii; see
how this farmer has assorted his tohac-
co. Well, here is &C., Sc, &c. and &c.
| tobacco in this bundle. Now, you say.
we don't assert in that way. Well. per-
haps you do not, but a great many do not
assort as well / was in Baltimore last
week and my attention was called, by a
seller and buyer, to some samples of
| new tobacco just opened. They were
| terribly mixed, both in stripping and
packing. One sample had five bundles
of mixed crop and leaves in them, rang
ing in value from one to nine cents, and
one bundle of second leaves from cents
to unsaleable. fany farmer in this audi
ence sent an order TO his commission
merchant for barrel of No. / mackeral,
and upon opening il found 1t contained
about oBe-half herring, would he not re-
turn it and try to find more reliable
man with whom to dealg The tobacco
growers OF Maryland have treated their
customers in a similar manner, and they
have borne with them until patience has
ceased to be virtue / was in a sale
room last spring and the commission
merchant was selling some tobacco TO
buyer, and after he had sold several sam
Piles at what thought was fair price,
he picked up sample and said, Harry,
let me sell you this want to close
ii out" His reply was, mo; / told you
yesterday would not buy it, and threw
| it down. ] examined il and fOIad il
badly mixed with tobacco i'm value from
3 to o cents. I remarked to the buyer,
IF you have determined not 20 buy
mixed tobacco any more you should is
sue circular to the farmers" His re-
ply was, 1--WE have talked and begged
them for ten years to stop mixing their
tobacco and they pay no attention to us,
now let them feel it." Now, the manu-
facturer of cigarettes and smoking to-
bacco, which is principally the use made
OF our tobacco, on account of its burn
ing qualities, cannot use and 10e. to-
bacco in his fine brands, therefore, being
mixed, he can only pay the price of the
low grade. The smoker who has &C
customed himself to a good brand of to-
bacco can detect the smallest mixture of
common tobacco. Such being q fact,
shows the Importance of the manufac-
turer shaivng uniformity in his tobacco.
l think every farmer should try to give
his customer his crop as near the way he
wants it as possible. We have got to
stand on the merits of our tobacco, and
for that reason should do all we can to
satisfy the consumer. Has there been
any improvement in the growing, hand
ling and packing of our tobacco in the
last twenty years. fail to see it, Now,
do not hesitate to say that no men have
been SO unfairly treated as the buyers of
Maryland tobacco. Now, a halt is de-
manded, and the life of the weed de-
pends upon better handling and more
uniform stripping and packing.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Ballengcr's
paper Director Amoss introduced Prof.
W. G. johnson, who addressed the In
stitute on Noxious Insects of the Farm
and Garden.
Noxious insects Of the Farm and Garden.
BY PROF. W. 6. JOHNSON.
| INTRODUCTORY.
Naturalists haye discovered within the last
twenty-five years so close q relationship be-
tween plants and insects that should the latter
be exterminated the whole face OF Nature
would speedily change. with the disappear
ance of our grain and succulent fruits man
and the higher animals would probably per
sn: Ey.ery plant and insect mas Its place In tsae
1t has been estimated by the most prominent
entomologists that there are no less than 10.
00.00O species OF insects In the world. From
this enormous aggregation few people, indeed
have any idea Of the enormous amount Of tE-
jury done to our crops. The agricultural prod
ucts OF the Z: $. are estimated at about si .0a.
WO.Wl OF this about one-tenth. or, In othel
words. about s400,m00 is given up TO insec
ANs
almost without an effort OF protection. It ha
been clearly shown BY careful experimental
could be saved annually By the careful applI
| cation Of methods OF control and prevention.
In some sections of the country vast sums O
Of single species-fof instaoce@in ms @ ~ aaso. Tn
the control OF the Gypsy Moth in lis last fosi
|, thousand dollars was appropriated by the Leg
isiature and used against this pest. The amoun
appropristed was not sufiictcnt 20 complete IN
work, and the ineect IL rapidly spreading ..
, other localities. The moth was originally in
troduced by accident, and II by for the mns
far It Is confined 10 Mas. but Iniess more .:b
eral State or Government appropriations esi
= be secured Tor , Its sappressssn - !. Will prove
The army worm, chtEch-buR, Hessian fsy aas
an almost fnnumerab.e number Of pests are
grain each year that are totally destroyed
: The loss by the chinch-bug s9me season
reaches .r Syer ra %E ~ sS D the hessian NJ
ANATOMY.
Insects 10 not bresths through their moatl
as do the higher animals. but through Iiftl
openings along the sides Of their bodies. II
combating insects some knowledge q tnsi
be known whether the pest bas biting or sack
|. ing mouth parts. Such Insects as grasshopters
} mouth-parts and can be Destroyed by any o
the arsenics, such as Paris green, London pur
. pie. &c. with sucking insects these remedIss
by insefns their sesk through 1s the sfI Sark ip .
epidermal layer OF the plant and eraw thei
noarishmsnt from within, Tau: the poison
! at all. With insects OF this nature come erter
nal Insecticides, such as kerosene emulsion
, whale-oii soaps. &C. should be used
SOME DANGEROUS PESTS.
apple-tree tent caterpillars, can be dcstroye.
, By any OF the 9r.enics. Paris green is the bes