The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-12-02
Tobacco Growing.
Editor Tie Manning Times:

Will YOU give US space in your col
umns to mention few facts in behalf O.
the tobacco culture in Clarendon Coun
tv. Tobacco has been cultivated in thi:
County about fifteen years successfully
It was first cultivated in the Pudding
Swamp section, better known as Salem
The people in this portion of Clarendon
have cultivated it every year since II
was introduced, with great success
! These people find more money in grow
ing tobacco than they do in cotton.
People are learning IN other portions
of Clarendon, that they TOO can grow TO-
bacco successfully. We will mention a
few on this side of Black River. that
| have been growing tobacco seven or
eight years and have found it a paying
crop. Mr.. J. Eurman Bradham: Mr. 7.
! J. Tisdale: Mr. J. O. Lowder: Mr.. James
Holiday; Mr.. J. B. Holiday: Mr.. NJ.
Stukes: Mr.. J Z. Kelley: Mr.. John Dan
iels: Mr.. H. A. Aisbrook and others.
Mr.. J. 8. HOLIDAY realized one l,uc-
dred and sixty dollars on one acre this
year and all the above named people got
good prices.
We nave seen the soils all over Clar-
endon County and can safely say, any
self drained land Ia this county will grow
tobacco successfully. The lands west OF
Manning are especially adopted .o TO-
tobacco culture.
Tobacco is crop that is very quickly
grown. You SOW your plant lands II
January and transplant iu April and
gather through the later part Of June
1,,1 1r "a
and marketed in about ninety days.
The curing of tobacco is very simple
and easy, if you first let it get ripe.
We find that one thousand pounds of
high grade tobacco fertilizer per acre
will grow one thousand pounds of tobac-
GO with the average season. You. OF
course use fertilizers according to the
nature of your lands. We believe you
can grow one thousand pounds OF tobac-
co with the same quantity Of fertilizer
that it takes to grow the a, arage bale
of cotton, aud that the one thousand
pounds of tobacco can be grown on one
acre of land. We find that one thousand
pounds OF tobacco can be grown and
marketed with the same cost OF growing
and marketing bale of cotton: hence
YOU can see that there is more money lu
six and seven cents tobacco than IN eight
and one half cents cotton.
South Carolina raised about y, 100000
pounds of tobacco this year that sold for
an average of ten cents per pound. The
state made about the same average last
year. Statistics will show that the to-
bacco growers in this state for the past
ten years have realized more money per
pound and acre too. than the cotton
planters. Danville. Virginia sold last
year 1907, 30,000,O0O pounds at an ever
age of sll.46 per hundred. Kentucky
has recently sold more than 100000
pounds from seventeen to thirty cents
per pound.
We have written this article for the
purpose of helping those that may be
contemplating growing tobacco. Tobac-
co seed can be obtained here in Man
ming free of cost, the place for distribu-
tiou will be mentioned on. We offer our
service to any one wishing to grow to-
bacco, in the selecting of plant lands
and lands suitable for growing purpos-
es, free of cost.
CLARK & COTHRAN.