Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-05-20
How to Grow White Burnley To-
baccO.
Icontinued irom last week.l

from four to SIX weeks AFTER you
have topped it. By topping | mean
the breaking out of the bud as
your plant would not spread or
mature properly if this bud were
not broken out as per previous in
structions.
If the season is a dry one and
4 you find that after taking of the
I first crop of suckers your tobacco
I has begun to fire up badly or in
: other words if the bottom leaves
have begun to dry up then |
I would advise that you cut the to-
bacco at that time in order to save
it as your tobacco would have a
better body and weigh more than
if you let it stand through a long
/ drouth after being suckered.
In cutting the tobacco the plant
should be split down the middle OF
the stalk with a tobacco knife from
the very top down within four
inches of the ground and the stalk
cut of at the ground. Your sticks
should bs about four feet three
inches long and sharpened at one
end so that they could be stuck in
the ground when you are cutting
the plants and after you have cut
each plant place it straddle of the
stick which should lean from the
sun and the butt or bottom part of
the stalk should be placed toward
the sun, and if possible it is best
that you have a wagon to follow
along that a frame has been built
on which will allow the tobacco to
hang upon the wagon in order to
avoid the plants being bruised and
after the tobacco is half wilted is
the best time to hang it up in the
barn to avoid breaking off the
leaves, for if you allow the plants
to remain out in the hot sun until
it is thoroughly wilted it will very
often sun-burn the tobacco so
badly that it will cure up with
green splotches all over it which
is one of the worst of injuries.
Should you have tobacco that
has been cut left out in the field
over night never haul or house it
until the dew is thoroughly dried
off it as tobacco put in the house
that is wet will it to sweat
and house-burn which destroys
the color and takes out all the life
leaving the blackened dead leaves
with very little weight.
The rails in the barn should be
at least four feet apart each way
sup and down and across" and
always leave a space of from eight
to ten inches between every stick
of tobacco to allow the air and
light to pass through and do not
put over from five to seven stalks
of tobacco on a stick according to
the size of the plants, always
being sure to give the tobacco
plenty of room on the stick and
between the sticks in the barn.
The barn should be well venti-
lated having windows every five or
six feet running from bottom to
top. A very good plan is to put a
board on hinges every few feet SO
that it a be thrown open in good
curing weather and closed in bad
weather. The barn should Lbe
kept open all pretty days while
the tobacco is curing, in case you
should have warm, damp or foggy
weather while the tobacco is cur
ing and the tobacco shows any
signs of strutting then | would
advise closing the barn tight and
using charcoal fires to dry it out
thoroughly and in this way you
can save your tobacco from being
house, burned. Never use wood
in firing tobacco as it leaves a bad
odor on the leaf and damages il
for home trade.
After the tobacco is thoroughly
cured out and ali the sap is out Of
the leaves, stems and stalks the
tobacco is then ready for stripping.
and you a not be too careful
about the CHASING of the leaves il
you want to get the best market
prices.
There are six grades of tobacco
on every stalk and should youl
crop contain any damaged tobac-
co of any description it should be
thrown out in a class to itself. BY
damaged | mean green, frozen,
sun-burned, house, burned, worm
eaten, storm-beaten, wet or dam
age of any kind, and each kind
should be tied up in hands to itself,
The six irregular grades are Bright
Leaf, Red-Leaf and Jugs, Top
Leafs, trash and flyings or ground
trash, and are generally found or
the stalk in the following order
In stripping your tobacco you hole
the butt of the stalk toward you.
therefore the first grade you pull
of will be the hyings or GROUND
leaves, which are very light bodied
and ragged and should be put in
class to themselves; the next grad
is called trash and is always very
light bodied, but is much cleane
than the flyings and as a rule no
80 ragged; these leaves must also
be kept in a class to themselves
The next leaves you come to ar
the Jugs and are the best of you
light bodied, high-colored tobacco
and it sometimes takes an exper
grader to distinguish between thi
grade and the Bright-L Leaf, which
is the next grade and is the bes
leaf grade and should be Of fairl,
good size, sound and with pretty
fair body. Be sure and make tn,
Bright-Lea clean as you only in
jure this grade by putting any in
ferior tobacco in it and bring i
down in quality to the next grade