The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-03
TOBACCO CULTURE
VERY PROMISING
PerryaIa Tobacco Company
Will Plant 100 Acres
READY MARKET Is FOUND
Government Experts Have Proven That
the Soil of Perry County Is
Finely Adapted to This
Product.
READY MARKET is FOUND

The people of Perry county are very
much interested Just now in the culture
| of tobacco" said A. w. Stewart of Ma
rion, secretary and treasurer of the Per-
ry-Alabama Tobacco company. which has
just been organized with capital stock
of $4,000.
1--WE have 900 acres admirably adapted
to this business. and will go into it on
a most conservative basis, planting this
year 100 or $50 acres of filler and few
acres of Sumatra wrapper.
wv. II. Tayloe, the president, is pres
ident of the Ella-White Cotton mills of
Uniontown, also of the EllaWhite Land
company, and an officer in the cotton
seed oil mill at Uniontown; director in
the Merchants bank there; in fact, u
man of business and a successful one.
j. NJ Sprott is a resident of Marion,
owner of 10000 acres of fine farm land
and a successful business man. Enos k.
Stewart of Selma is a real estate agent
and broker and a hustler. A. w. Stewart
of Marion is a lawyer, partner OF Judge
J. IL. Stewart.
"R. T., A. Burker was the man who
had the soil survey of Perry county IN
charge and discovered that this SOIL ana
climate would produce these topaccos
before
States department of agriculture he helu
a position with the provincial survey ou-
reau of Canada, and was in the tobacco
houses of Montreal.
I'm 1902 the United States department
of agriculture made a soil survey OF
Perry county. one of the reasons OF which
being to discover If possible an adapt
ability for a more remuneratiVe crop
than is now raised in this section
"The result of this investigation sub
seouently led to the growing, curing and
hacking of a small crop OF CUBAN hiler
tobacco under the supervision or the gov
eminent experts In 1908. This experiment
was highly satisfactory. the experts De-
lieved that they had produced lear OF
an exceptionally fine quality that would
equal the best product or CUBA.
1.-THE tobacco turned over to some OF
the most prominent leaf brokers who
narceled 1t out to the trade with the
result that they were at once pesleeeu
with orders for more, and thousands OF
pounds could have been sold but the eX-
detrimental crop was limited.
Last year twenty-nine acres were
nlanted in tobacco in Perry county which
netted an average profit of $40 per acre.
The estimated acreage for 1907 Is ABOUT
300 acres II this be the case, the de-
mand for the tobacco grown here Will,
without a doubt, increase, because the
manufacturers can then afford to MAKE
new blends and put new cigars on the
market, as they will have sufficient sup
ply to do so.
ION the basis of $50 pounds per acre.
which is very low, the filler cost S1s cents
per pound to grow. The cost of handling
this in the packing house is 6 cents per
pound, or a total cost of Az cents per
pound, and when packed 1t will bring
nrices depending on the grading, of from
30 to 60 cents per pound. So from this you
can readily see the great returns on this
filler tobacco.
preference this far has only been made
to Cuban filler tobacco, but the tobacco