The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-01-14
Farm Miscellany.
A LETTER FROM A TOBACCO GROWER.

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/ have some notes in regard to
raising tobacco, / would like 60 have
you publish. l have grown tobacco
four years. First year planted on
pea land previously sowed to rye
The crop did not grow very well and
was very irregular and only brought
about $50 per acre. The second year
part of my land had been planted in
potatoes and part had lain out the
potato land did best, none of my
crop did very we'll. l MANFRED with
d home mixture which contained 81
per cent. ammonia, 5 per cent. pot
ash and 9 per cent phosphoric acid ;
the crop brought about $65 per acre.
The third year I planted part po-
tato land, other an old mulberry
orchard-mulberry land die best it
had been partly cultivated so as to
keep down bushes. / manfred this
crop as folio VS. Dried blood 16 per
cent. ammonia, 100 pounds sulphate
potash, so per cent. potash and 600
pounds Is per cent. aoid phosphate
and used tie stable manure raised
from one mule on about 20 thou
sand hills in rows thI 90 by four feet.
Made some wrappers and crop
br ought $50 per acre, 1 used nlne
hundred pounds fertilizer per acre
analysing 81 per cent. ammonia,
81 per cent potash and 1G% per
cent. phosphOrio acid.
The fourth year, which was 1901,
l planted land which was in tobacco
l n 1899 aud followed with wheat let
she stubble remain and plOwed in
January with two horse plows,
Or, Ike desp, turning yellow dirt gen
orally, after wards ~pulverized with
disc C~ultivator; then layed off rows
3x4 feet, mixed my own fertilizer al
follows: 200 pounds dried blood, Is
per cent. ammonia 100 pounds sui
phate of potash, so per cent. /; 800
pounds 16 per cent. acid, making 900
pounds per acre, anaIy zing 81 per
cent. ammonia, 81 per oent pOsash,
81 per cent. phosphorio acid, then
used about 35 pounds nitrate soda
per acre, and the manure from one
horse stable under 10 Thousand hills,
the stable n vas composted
with about 30 loads woods mould
raked up in August. l used oom
post and sod in hill and other fertill-
ger in drill. My land is very thin,
poor and sandy, being four feet to
clay in places. 1 think it we'll to use
stable compost and some fertilizer in
hill on suoh land to sustain the plant
while young
l experimental with fertilizer in
diff1rens quantities, using from 1000
pounds ~ Ter cent ammonia, 8 per
cent. phOsphorlo acid, 3 per cent.
potash to As pounds ammonia, 75
p ,unds potash, 1875 pounds phos-
phoric acid. 1 find that on v, ~
poor, thin, sandy land that
high manuring pays best. l
think to use n my next crop As
pounds of ammonia and other thinzs
to balance. The land spoken Of
would make about eve bushels of
corn per acre without manure.
Heavy manuring on this land gives
The tobacco siz5 and much better
quality. We have much of this md
in our country that does not pay TO
grow cotton and other crops.
Plant tobacco on lying out land,
land shat has been sown in small
grain or planted in potatoes. Fresh
land is always in order for tobacco.
The land should be plowed very
desp as early as the 18th of Decem-
Der Pow deep in the fall and ma
nure well in the spring and work
At the First Sign OF u cramp or