The weekly true Democrat., 1907-12-20
TO SHADE TO-
BACC0 GROWERS
D. A. Shaw, Of Gadsden County. in
Times, To Tobacco Growers.

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prosperous standing, and the writer
thinks it is Of the utmost Importance
for each grower to take personal
pride in holding the standard of merit
as high as it is at present, and in i'm
proving it to the point where our wrap
per tobacco will be second to none for
manufacturing FIVE cent cigars.
Shade tobacco TO be elassed as excel
lent requires great vigilance on the
part OF the grower: First, in selecting
good soil on which it is to be grown
Then the next question, and this is the
reason tins article is written, is to en-
phasiHe the vital Importance of every
grower producing q good burning to-
bacco. II we make the most beautiful
tobacco that the world affords and n
does not burn good, it g worthless and
more than worthless, for it viii ruin
the reputation Of the grower, the dealer
who celia II, the manufacturer who Duta
It on his cigars, and last, but not last,
the retailer who sells the cigars 70 the
consnmeF.
Bad burning cigar wrappers has been
our greatest htndrance In establishing a
name and reputation for orr tobacco.
When once customer buys q loe OF
Florida tobacco and it does not burn.
all salesmen should shun such q ones
place as though Il was infested with a
pestilence, for then all Florida tobacco
and those who offer Il for sale are alike
condemned as frauds and impOsters bV
the customer, who 10 90 unfortunate as
to get q poor burning lot Of tobacco.
Good burning tobacco can be had by
avoiding all guanos, goat, sheep and
nog manures, and by not using any low
'r sulphate Of potash
Now this should be used by everv
intelligent tobacco grower: Nitrogen,
'hOsphoric acid and potash, for these
IRE the three essentials in plant
,rOWth.
The writer has found the following
o be en- excellent formula for growing
900 hprnlpE tobacco, This Tor one
Gre 0hl tIl0nsand pull ar alhnle1
lrne broadcasted and pIOughed Ii at
east three months before transplant
ng, four hundred pounds pure calcined
arbOnate OF potash, analyiZinR 80 per
ent. carbonate potash, six hundred
onnds ground bone dust, one and one
alt tons cotton seed meal Tor one. half
on cotton seed meal and one hundred
ushels cotton seed), and twenty loads
| COW or horse manure. This with
lvorable seasons will make a good
leid IN pounds per acre and will make
good burning tobacco, if persisted in
y the grower.
OF course il the lands have been
olsoned by having guanO used there
the year before, It will take longer
get the soil thoroughly permeated
lth this fertilizer that produces good
lrning tobacco.
The good house Of Schroeder & Arq-
mbau spent thousands Of dollars in
iperimentlng TO discover this formula.
Some may ask why we are so free to
We such valuable formula ? The
ason is this All tobacco that goes
Il from this section is known as Flor
a tobacco, and IL it is bad burning to-
eco the single lot of poor tobacco
es not get the weight OF condemna-
Dn, but all Florida tobacco is CON
mned thereby.
We have the eyes of the wrapper to-
Geo consumer turned our way. Let
/, one and all, use every endeavOr to
Id and improve our present standing
Oet us emphasize II AGAIN. prOduc-
good burning tobacco: then by care
use the seed TO make large sized
ives, keeping them free from worm
les and free from damage; by careful
ndling in the fields at harvest time:
having surplus Of barn room and
carefully guarding against the many
rms OF damage that occur in curing to-
eco IN barns. But after all is said and
ne. If our tobacco does not burn good
: enterprise will be failure.
When grower is ambitious to pro-
re fine lot Of good burning shade
'acco, and is willing 10 devote his
ne and energies thereto diligently To
, exclusion of other money making
ps, our advice to him is not to sell
crop under "A contract, but to grow
! harvest his crop independently and
II on its merits for If the crop
uld be poor one allowance will have
be made 20 the full extent OF damage,
crop may show. and If the crop be-
2 no more will be paid as rule than
contract calls for Whereas n
crop IS not under a contract, and Is
ne one, with the big demands there
for such goods, compt tton will be
n Tor the purchase OF all such crops,
m the present outlook. for at least
years.
Irs, G. e. Sanders, who has been Wis
z her mother in the neighbOrhOod Of
IahasSee for several months, re-
led today and went down TO Dunnel-
on matters Of business that will de-
her NhGRa until aftar fha hOl1ay