The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-02-16
WILSON'S INVESTIGATIONS
ll.' Florida Tobacco Growlng-other
Important Points.

Into Florida Tobacco Growing-Other
Important Points.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1~5.-Secretary
wilson. Of the agricultural department.,
has returned to the city from q weeks
visit 10 Florida, where he went at the
suggestion OF the President to study the
productions of that country. In an In
teFyisw concerning his observations
here, the secretary spoke as follows:
Inc most striking development I
found in Florida was the growth of the
TOBACCO interest. Within the last few
years 10000 Cubans have come over
from their native country. many OF
Nhon had been life long tobacco grow.
tFs. cu.eTs ard cigar makers who un-
.-.s.snd me art from the planting OF
w ssea 20 he marketing OF the cigar.
me Cuoans recognize the hummock
.ahts OF. florida as being very similar
~ mat OF the beg. tobacco land in Cuba.
american caught on" to the busl-
asss very rapidly. The s,aIe statistics
s.nS mat the Cuhans sold last year
;SY.yo,e9 cigars and that the sales OF
~, ,TSaseo N a.. Its forms brought Cubans
nS'gyDV'% The United States still pays
~ Iu9a' sunatra, Mexico and other
~ !, s!L,eN,m for tobacco. This
VII VII : ORGAN is reaching out for. Not
Jn"stana.hS tie people get $50, 000, 600
.st's annually from florida, scarcely
t"c" a thing Is 10 be found on the mar
heI as a Florida cigar. They all come
ros.n Under the Havana am l found
~! MIch the same condition. OF af-
rnss N mo Forth regarding the Florida
TTs"! Is ! found In American butter.
90 consumer in London is we'll salts
a. '.a. Inc American butter Is the
n"r, VIC: ever went on his table. The
va nS, tpiCGre after smoking his ell
is1 va. tsStliy very readily that moth
. .%s eQa2!s his fine Havana. Then K
~ nave evidence 10 prove that s.. was
FF1o,,In, cured and manufactured IN
h.SSstla' you WIZ convince him. bu, not
~ TtIctlE,Gs:. made efforts 10 buy a box
e.u.n cigars grown, cured and man
,-,.u:ee IN Florida, but only in one
"T.4l.ce was abb. 10 do So"
~" connection with the tobacco indus
"a inquiry Secretary Wilson said he
S"S lo!c.h!y ren!Eaed OF the work done
c nIe The last few years ~ the aprj-
Ir -'gt@i experiment stations In master
v%,, ,ns principles that un:ieriIe the ia
cSn.s ., butter and the r!penicc Of
,s 80, After The tobacco Is grown IL
;i5 ,S'..y wen Understood that fer1nenta-
en-, ";ons several lines produces tho
ius, .S hayor OF the product, and
rsc,,H as several chseseS are given their
so .sr taS,e through bacterial action.
man Hn3ueSt;onably. tobacco grown ard
,bs aactuFed In different sections OF
Iindso unsry are iayo. cd by different
b4Ita1ss o. bacteria. He expressed ,he
Ave- t INA neither the Cubans nor the
ah"T, yang IN Florida knew anything
cnt,. 'Ge principles that underi,e the
,baI ot me sevAral tobaccos, bu; said
.yrsr ~, H~'ockbr!dge. In charge OF the
rssII,m.sHt stations at Lake CITY, fully
tior the requirements Of the situa.
rs,s. re mas !nauguratel a series OF
ross ~. ~resa"fIng fert!llzIng and what
lion " curing the process o! iermenta-
fcGG ni'toScn. potash ard phosphorlc
the nj az me secretary said, required In
eI production OF tobacco. The acid
ca% ~ Florida in abundance. nitrogen
eTSn w nad through growing leguminous
'iba' e., ah1 MS the potash Is found beiow
aeposlts Of the German mines,