The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-29
Tobacco and Truck
 GrolOing m Escanlbia

It's Vice President Is &. s. Foshee. one Of the wealthiest young men or this section; the Secretary fs Dr. J. T. Boyd and Treasurer Is Probate Judge M E. Brooks.
 Very ssnguine are the incorporatorA otherwise they would not have pur- chased a tract of 500 acres which 1t IS proposed 10 ultimately cultivate. oth- erwfse they would not have started al- ready to equip twenty-eight acres with posts and iathes ana wires and walls at an average COST of y5oo an acre Otherwise. they would not nave contracted for the erection of some ten or twelve barns in which to hangar cure the weed. But for the promise or success. this corporation would not have actually paid in upwards of IS total capital stock for use in immedi- ate outlay.
 Besides the twenty-eieht acres in what Is kncwnkas shaded cultivation the innoyators here are ploughins In twelve acres of filier tobacco. It Is the Cuban variety. 1t t-is known here as sun tobacco because no shade VIII be needed to foster It's growth. To conn piete the sappurtenances of the farm is q deep-bored well from which water IS pumped by gasoline engine for the IT. rigation of the seed beds which com prise one acre adjoining. As soon as this acre of seed has served It's pur- pose and the seedlings from the broad. cast -sown field has been transpianteo it will be cultivated by the snaoed method iust as the other twenty-eigh acres. The seed acre will be over spread with cheese cloth to admit sort ened sunshine. It is a very expensive kind of cui- ture. when the cost was made known in presenting the prospectus to invest ora here they gasped. Such intensive methods had never been known n these parts. such cost seemed more like building houses on town lots than lcultivating a farm product.
 Nature Reduces Cemt.
 nut the business would cost more were it. not for the very surroundings which nature has provided. For it is mostly. lumber. iatAs and posts that fatten the price of raising tobacco by the shaded scheme. And here at the l saw mills are these things sawn ana | cut. Seventy thousand laths to the 1 acre practically 2.0ee.o00 for the pres ant plansaof cultiyation--that many are required to mitigate the rays of sun which shall fall upon the tender weed 1 in It's growth. Seventy thousand oi the strips of pine four feet in iengff | and a little more than an Inch in widtf are to shade the plant in one acre, Iaie with care. They are being laid nov lsbv scores of negro women and chil' dren who, mounted on scaffoldtnBs hfs i the laths to the height of eight feet 1 eaateu them about with wires or two
 sizes that connect them one with ths i other and in such fashion as will re.
 sist the drives and pulls of wind
 Around the entire farm is plant l wall well braced and impervious lt' Efngects. It is said that to omit fn' wall would expose the plant 10 the ray l asea If the fatal insects which hay' I destroved crops in Sumatra and othel | places where the weed might other | wise have attained 10 profitable vigor
 Ii seema to have served its purposl I full in the two-acre experiment. & ol
 yea. ago. The story of how the wee' l fhriyed and grew until the crest O
 the topmost leaves pushed angrii!
 fhrot,xh the lattice and above its eigh -i saef of fmprisonment is well known
 The theory is that those insects 1whicl
 threaten the destruction of any su rnatra crop will not dive upward an' so surmount the wall put travels on ! line or downward. Hence 1t is believes ,the farm with the wooden wall is worn The curing of the tobacco was yer,
 ancouraRing last year. It will be I'm , itated this season again. The bi I leaves are cut and made into hand after the manner of the Kentuckian sand swung to the horiz0ntaitrafters the barns. There 1t is allowed t sweat out. Later it Is put fin rec |. tanEuiar pile, packed closely and al lowed to rasnain under the hot naturs temperature of the summer. Fac hand is then practically inverted an
 turned about SO that all parts may b , similarly exposed. The tobacco 1
 marketable shape is taken out and as