The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-15

or ten feet long hung with strap hinges
on top TO push out at bottom every night
and to close every dry day while the to-
bacco Is hanging.
HOW TO SOFTEN TOBACCO AND BRING;
| IT INTO CASE DURING A DROUTH
without spraying or sprnkling, which
would often ruin it,. For SIS or $40 (,r
none If you do the simple work yourseif)
you may have softening room in one
corner OF your barn. or outside, by dig
ging pit about five feet deep by ten or
mere square in the ground. II clay, no
wall or logs, boards or bricks are needed
Build above ground about three and a
half or FIVE feet an air-tight wall The
roof may be nearly flat and may be COW
cred with earth taken out of the pit Have
only one opening or door. Put tier piles
or light strips in this room and place on
them n sufficient quantity of tobacco to
strip next day. 1t will become soft and
plicble in one night. The building of
these pits are very necessary and essen
tai to tobacco growers, for they do not
have to wait for damp or rainy spell to
bring their tobaccos into case so they can
handle IT,
THE PRICE OBTAINED FOR FLORIDA
TOBACCOS
is from 40 TO 80 cents average a pound and
produced ut the rate of 500 TO 1000 pounds
per acre Some have received 500 pounds
per acre. and that in the raw state. Ii is
certain that the finished products would
IN some rare instances yield even 5000
per acre. While it is possible To increase
this return, | will emphasize the fact tina.
mary would attempt 1t il they possessed
the knowledge OF II higher state OF hand
ling and fermenting which can be ac-
quired only by years of experience.
In submitting to the tobacco growers of
Texas and those who are interested Otto
Carl Buttorweck's tobacco bulletin on the
culture OF tobacco, issued by the depart
meut of agriculture, and the Hon. Milton
Whitney's bulletin en- the best methods
OF curing tobaccos, will say that thee
are no higher authorities or the culture Of
this staple in the United States and
doubt ii there is In the world
These bulletins have been Issued after
years of study from observation and sci
entinc experiments both IA Florida and
Cuba, and they will apply equally as Well
TO Texas. as the same conditions exist
here as there. II is we'll 10 test the gcs-
powers of tobacco seed before
they are sown. To do this in scientific
and reliable manner, take 100 seeds, care
fully counted out. place them between two
wet hlotters put these between two china
plates so they will remain moist, and keep
III warm place at temperature of from
10 TO 50 degrees. The blotting paper must
be Kept moist but not Wet. After ten days
the bloiting papers and count the
number of seeds that have spronted; this
Will give the percentage or good seed and
viii be valuable guide for the quantity
II seed to SOW. Last year there We're
Of dollars spent upon worthless
iced, aud 1t is the aim of this association |
o prevent this from occurring again.
There have been many articles written |
pen tobacco culture aud there viii possibly |
ppear many mere In tho dailies and |
seoklies of our State. but the methods OF
Is cultivation and curing as set forth In |
he bulletins mentioned aepye will be
dopteG by the Texas tobacco growers and |
heir association,
The press OF this state has been ex-
remedy Kind in publishing rany articles
rom my pen and III the interest OF the
'eSas Tobacco Growers association and
hose interested. md Mill request that
ach reader who contemplates growing to-
acco mex; year vii! file all articles above
for their future guidance. rs
Is not tho wishes OF tho Texas Tohacc6
rowers association to tax their patience
, rcpublish these articles. Hoping that
hose articles or bulletins will be OF great
eneft TO Texas tobacco growers and the
lrmers Of this State. am.
resident Texas Tobacco Growers Asso-
citation.