Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-09-01
TOBACCO ON THE
 FIELD OF MARS
|" No Soldiers Kit Complete Without it," was LaWton's Maxim-What
 zlgaer Said 10 Tommy Atkins

Tobacco Is as necessary to war as powder and shot. At least it has been necessary to American and Eng fish ,oldiery ever since the use of the weed became general. General LaWton, who lied gloriously at the head O. his ::!en ill the far away Phi!,p2iaes, E:ei to have three rules ia regard . .te 1are of h;s soldiers: Frs, l:e ;4:d, "A soldier must have f1o1; ses22l, he must have clothes. aaI tA.-5, he must have his proper ra..3. ot tobacco if he IS to be q frs: class fighting man.
 nl5 Inst ir,ax!ta ol the great Law ton points out tae important part tobacco ta5 played in war as well as in peace. The Worlds Work not very long ago took up the subject Ii ar article entitled Bull Durham 1T War and Peqcf.' The article in part is as follows
 klp.las caused many a pipe to patt n approval when he made Zig Ter say iA The Captive,' to the red coated English soldiers who offered him some smoking tobacco I thaslIl you, but l don't use any tobacco you'd be likely to carry. =. 'Bulp Durham ?-'B4lL' Durham! I take it all back, every last word. Bull Durha,n-here! If you ever strike Akron, Ohio, when this fool wars over remember you've Laughton G. Zigler in yot:- vest pocket-including the city of Akron And Zigler smoked in peace while he told his graphic story of war.
 Down on the South African veldt, all ntt,a- narte nf +1,o ,,,o.1J during the past generation, the smoke of Bull Durham has been precious to the sight and smell and to the rest of the five senses, too, of all men who find solace in my Lady Nicotine. Very likely young Zigler's father was a soldier i'll an Ohio regiment of Sherman's army. and the sons fond ness for the package with the Bull was inherited. For down in Caro- lima they tell you to this day that the fame of the tobacco was borne north and south, to every part of America, by the soldiers in Johns- tons and Sternan's armies. It was flags had in common.
 10 tell the story of this famous tobacco in war and peace one needs .o SO to b ildlil. I1eIe 1nOQern industrial city Is found in place of the struggling town of the sixties. Here is the home of 'Bull' Durham, a great brick factory built around a quadrangle after the manner of the colleges at Oxford, where the brand has wide vogue. To the smoker the whole building, with its acres of floor space would seem like a vast bowl of some Brobdignagian's pipe so fragrant is it of his favorite to- bacco. And the other impression that he would have from the moment he entered would be cleanliness and yet more cleanliness. Nowhere is tobacco handled by hand; that is left tor the fingers of the smoker himself when he gathers from the pouch just the amount needed for his pipe. But before the tobacco is brought to the factory from long-reaching ware houses nearby, it has been going through scientific process of curing. To begin with, it is the best grade of leaf from the Old Belt tobacco of North Carolina and Virginia.
 Every May, tobacco, in drying. goes through sweat which throws off the rankness which the natural leaf has when picked. In the 'BulY Durham warehouses the leaf is kept sometimes two, sometimes three years, depending upon the tobacco. in order to get just the right mel lowing of age; for tobacco is much like wine i'll growing better as it grows older. When the curing has brought the leaf to the desired con- ditlon,. 1t IS brought to the factory. The right trained men who mix the tobacco in the proportions for the Bull Durham blend pick it from various piles of leaf with shining pitchforks, just as farmers would handle hay. They take from one pile and then another, their prac- ticed eyes and hands telling them the exact amounts, and place it on a canvas carrier, which is moving perpetually into what is called the breaker. Here the leaves are broken together into a mixture of pieces four to six inches long. These are borne forward by the carrier. which is like an endless chain, into the drier, where inc moisture IS removed, thence to the cleaners, where every sort of foreign. substance is taken out, leav- ing only pure tobacco, then to the cutters to be chopped up fine, ready i tor the great bins, golden store of 'Bulp Durham
 Ingenious packing machines weigh out and fill thousands upon thousands osf live cent packages, each contain ing full ounce and many good smokes: When the filled package sdrops from the machine, like a mel low plum. it is caught in a mould that just fits it. Here it is labelled. and 1t is then ready to go forth bear. ing the, famous Bull, known and hon. ored wherever pipes are smoked"