The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-24

! Keep the suckers of and the worms
off, and let the tobacco get dead ripe
The dews of cool early autumn nights
help IL immensely giving it body ana
ripening the nicotine I heard a man
who knew nothing in the world about
tobacco sing the praises the other day
of a pipe that took the nicotine out OF
the tobacco before the smoke got to the
palate. | ventured TO say to him that
l would as soon smoke corn fodder or
drink whisky from which all alcohol
had been banished. Nobody ever chew
ed or smoked or snuffed tobacco except
for it's nicotine. and nobody ever drank
whisky or wine or beer except for the
alcohol Of it-as well drink stump wa
ter.
Then, on some glorious morn OF splen-
did October, the season OF incipient In
dian summer, when the fodder is in the
shock-but ere the frost is on the pump
kin-when the dew is heavy and the air
is erisp-when the magnificent sun Of
such day is well on his course in the
heavens-go into the patch and "cut"
the tobacco, hang it on the stick" and
never let it touch mother earth. Take
1t TO thee scaffold, improvised in the
patch, of rails or poles, and let il there
''yaller'' until it is as the hickory leaf
turned golden at the first touch Of au-
tumnal breeze. Let it hang for twenty
four or fOrty-eight hours and then
house il in a barn tight enough TO eX-
clude the air. Two days later fire it by
means of charcoal, heating the building
TO that degree that drives the sap from
the leaf to the stalk, and makes the
stalk as dry as last years corn shuck. -
When the welcome rain of November
no IN 10 .
sleep the sweetest of all Gods bless
ings has brought the leaf in case"
strike it down and strip" it. selecting
the choicest leaves for chewing. Then
bulk" it, and as carefully as though
you were putting il in the hogshead to
compete for prize. In March hang
il again, so that the winds may make
it as dry as Tophet's pOwder-house. I'M
til it turns to snuff at the slightest
touch. April showers will bring 1t in
ease" when it must again be bulked
with all the care and tenderness and
nicely of the November bulking, with
this additional: Sprinkle on each layer
handful of sun-dried peaches-about
peck of peaches to each 100 pounds Of
tobacco.
And so. let it be. The sweat" will
come in the latter part Of May. Take
it up some time between the summer
solstice and July 10. stem it, lightly
spray II with old peach brandy in
which new honey has been dissolved.
Twist it. not more than seven leaves
to the twist, and not too tight; lay IL
away in an alright chest Of oak that
has been in the household time out Of
mind, and when pot-licker time comes.
the following November, take twist
of that tobacco and it will beat any
thing for chewing that ever came off
the land drained by licenses river, and
for smoking nothing ever came out Of
Cuba to compare with tiff you en-
ploy a homemade cOrncOb pipe.
No wonder some forty Vermifuge doc
tors starved to death in Barren cOun-
ty, where the folk i'm those days lived
on possum, goose, and pumpkin bread.
and chewed and smoked that sort Of
tobacco. The very children perpetuated
the virility of their dads and mans.
Copyright. 1907. by z. W. Newman)