The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-12-31
TO PLANT TOBACCO.
Experts Take Charge Of Considerable
Acreage Near Columbia.
SORE FACTS Fo2 PI0NEERS.
Mr. Waddeil Talks ADOut Soil OF
HichIanu County and EtS
Suitability for Culture

Richlanu County and It's
Suitability for Culture
, OF Weed.
The Columbia State says Mr.. II. S.
Waddell, VINO is a native OF Halifax
county, Virginia, has arrived in the
city. He is the expert in tobacco who
has been brought here to take charge
of the experimental farms to be eStab-
liShed near Hyatt Park by Mr.. 7. II.
HYATT and Others. Mr. Waddell has
already gone over considerable land in
the vicinity Of Columbia and inspect
ed it. He has long been student OF
tJbacco culture. THURSDAY he closed
the contract with, Mr.. Hyatt for the
cultivation of so reS,and will doubt
less take SO acres also for parties own
ing adjoining lands. Mr.. Waddeil has
also closed with Mr.. Huffman to fur
nish au expert to manage SO acres of
his land across the river to place in
cultivation. He is ready now to in
spect the land Of any others in the
county desiring to plant tobacco, ad-
wise with them, and if they desire it
secure men to take charge of the
farms. get them here.
He wishes to establish a tobacco
warehouse the first season and expects
to make Columbia his home. Friday
he talked Interestingly Of the culture
Of bright leaf tobacco, which, he says.
the lands in this section are adapted
to. He considers these lanGs much
better adapted to such culture than
the average lands now growing tobac-
co both in this State and North Caro-
liaa. He says he thinks there are
from 5000 to 10000 acres in this i'm
mediate vicinity that are thoroughly
adapted to growing bright tobacco
and that this is sufficient to establish
first class market. He says that
self-drained land Of light color will
make tobacco, and those with the ye}-
low clay subsoils will make finer
grade. Lands Of this nature rarely
ever fail in producing color or quality,
regardless Of the state OF cultivation.
He SAYS: AS to the quantity Of
fertilizers per acre and the kind this
is best determined by first giving the
land little study Of its condition.
From 700 to 1000 pounds of high
grade fertilizers on basis say OF s per
cent. phosphoric acid, / per cent. am
moria and per cent. potash is a good
combination, with from 10 to 20 bush
els Of cotton seed or double this quan-
tity in stable manure. This is pro-
viding your land is poor and Of very
coarse nature with no ammonlated
matter on it: otherwise leave off the
cotton seed or manure.
The average farmer, inexperienced
in tobacco, stands in dread Of the ex-
pense and risk in planting tobacco. l
would say just here there is a greater
per cent. of failure in agriculture in
almost any other crop cultivated than
there is in tobacco. TO succeed you
cannot risk this crop on half-hand-
ed, haphazard basis. 1t requires
study and intelligence. DO your part
of the work first. l have known farm
ers their first year cultivating tobacco
to average $50 to $3.50 per acre with
out any instruction from any one.
Il do not approve Of the one crop
basis. do believe though in diverSi-
fed farming. 1t pays. Raise plenty
to sustain your farm such as grain,
! forage. meat. ETC.. then plant some
cotton and some tobacco. Even a one
horse farmer when he is fixed for
farming, should plant from five to ten
acres Of tobacco, or from one to two
barns. AS to the size of a crop that
can best be determined by your situa-
tion. The first item is land, then
capital, and next and most important
is labor. The needy time in labor is
the harvesting season, July and Au-
gust, when your other crops are all
laid by after which it can be market
ed with IS per cent. less labor.
In large crops from % acres up, it
pays to have an experienced man who
may be secured for an interest in the
crop. Men thatare most capable will
cost you, from the fact they can make
money at it for themselves alone. l
have succeeded in locating three men
with crops from 80 to 80 acres and
have two more l know personally to be
capable of managing like quantities.
l will aid any one in securing men;
that is bring them in and give you my
judgment on the land, inquire as to
Lis references aud see that all such get
good tobacco seed free, providing any
such will write me in the next few
days and give me full particulars as to
how and where they are located. l
don't ask penny for what | tell them
or do for them. | do this simply with
a view Of establishing market here.
II would say to all interested: III
the event you cannot plant sufficient
acreage to employ an experienced man,
try your immediate neighborS ana
work up say 20 to 15 acres and write
me. as its important that this decis-
ion should be made early. You SOW
the seed in the months Of January
and February and it IS essential that
you should push forward your work,
particularly where you have much
building to do. Tobacco barns can be
built from $50 up. y barn will har-
vest from to acres owing to size
and season. It's lifetime is about 20
years, so practically your building
doesn't cost much. II is the other
small expenditures, succ IS tlHes,
sticks and canvas for plant beds: they
last from three to eight yc,.Ts, accord
ing to the care you take Of them.
After you once get fixed to make
tobacco you can make it and put it
on the market at an average cost
of from to 81 cents per pound, or
from so to S35 an acre. according TO
opJ conditions tD Ia nor