Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-05-13

plant from four to five acres in one
day, and anyone wishing to plant
as much as from 10 to Is acres it
would DO advisable to buy a ma
chine as you are then sure of get
ting your crop out regardless of
the season and the crop is sure to
be ready for housing much earlier.
In planting tobacco by hand it
is set out the same as setting out
cabbage, making small hills and
clearing these hills of all clods and
aud sticks and punching a hole in
the center of the hill with a stick
and putting the stem of the plant
in the hole and pinching the dirt
around the plant to hold it in an
upright position.
CULTIVATION.
When the bud of the plant be-
gins to turn green and grow is the
proper time to start cultivation
with a cultivator or riding pillow,
and pillow the ground at least once
every week until the tobacco is too
large to go between the rows with
the pillow or c%ultivator. If the pillow
is used often you will have very
little use for the hoe except to keep
the grass and weeds scraped from
between the plants.
Frequent cultivation always
gives the largest yield in pounds
per acre, so use the pillow as often
as practicable. Should you have
a wet spell and weeds and grass
get too thick in the tobacco patch
and too wet for blowing, then the
hoe must be used freely as tobac-
co should be kept clean at all times
and nothing should be allowed to
grow except the tobacco plants.
If you-have a dry spell keep busy
with the pillow as it will help to
keep the ground moist, and in clay
soil thelonger the drouth the deep
er you must pillow; if in limestone
soil, however, you must pillow Of
ten, but keep your ground level.
The plant should be topped ac-
cording to the growth. If the
plants are very thrifty and on
strong land it must be topped any
where from 16 to "A leaves high as
the tobacco that is topped high
this way has a much finer finish
than when topped low and the f.
Der is much smaller, and this is
the kind OF tobacco that the manu-
features most desire at the present
time; therefore, this is the charac-
ter of tobacco that is bringing the
top market prices.
AS soon as you find the fly has
begun to lay the eggs on the plants
you should begin to spray every
plant with Paris green, making q
mixture of equal parts of Paris
green and Stacked lime, and be
sure you get a good quality OF
Paris green. This mixture should
be put on the plant with a sprayer
or blower and one man can spray
the plants almost as fast as he can
walk through the patch, spraying
the top of all the plants. Repeal
the spraying after every shower
OF rain, as the rain will wash the
poison off the plants.
Suckers or sprouts will be found
to grow after a while from where
the leaves grow from the stalk and
these suckers should be broken of
before they have attained a growth
of four inches long and these suck.
ers come twice OIL all Burley tobac
co SO that the tobacco will have tt
be suckered the second time.
If tobacco is set out in May Their
it should be cut about the tst Of
September, and if tobacco is plant
ed early the tobacco is ready for
cutting and housing sooner anC
cures with better color and is moi
in SO much danger of house-burn-
ing as the latter cutting nor is il
in danger of being injured by early
frost and you also avoid the Sc
cond crop of worms which gener-
ally arrive about the last of Sep
TENDER and you will find this Sc.
cond crop of worms the hardest tt
fight as your tobacco must no
have a worm on it when it is pu
in the house for they will continue
to eat the tobacco until they pc
their full growth.
Concluded Next Week.