The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1910-07-01
MISS0URrS TOBACCO
POSSIBILITIES LARGER
EXPERTS FIND SOIL In MANY
PORTIONS PECULIARLY
ADAPTED TO CROP
Men From Kentucky Think Arcadia
Valleys Turf and Climate
Beats Own State.


Tobacco grown almost at the
door of the worlds greatest 90
bacco factories is now fac. Here
tofore, the plant hes been grown
with varying success in scattered
spots in Missouri. At Weston, in
the western part OF the state, for
instance, some success has been
met with ON rather large cc1la.
Al recent Land Congress held
at Ironton, Mo, the fact was
brought out by The State agri-
cultural experts that the soil sur
rounding Ironton was adapted
particularly to White Barley to-
ba2co.
In dozens of instances, the plant
was seen flourishing in the gard
ems of the farmers there about, be-
ing raised merely for their own
consumption. In three instances,
farmers are carrying on tobacco
growing there on a large scale.
Last year one man had twenty
acres of tobacco in cultivation,
from VIII ch his nst profit was ST, 200.
One principal in farming-or in
any other business, for that MAJ
ter-is the consideration of the
cost of the land, or property, in
proportion to what it will pro-
duce, the nearness to good
market and the consequent differ
ence, and therefore profit, in the
freight rates.
Ironton is a trifle more than
of st. Louis, on the Iron Mountain
railroads trunk line. II nes+les in
the Arcadia valley, some distance
in the Ozark Mountains. Thus
being on the main line of the rail-
road, and within three hours ride
of st. Louis, the market and trans
portation questions are answered
satisfactorily.
| The soil has even more in Ats
favor. In many places it is of q
red of great richness and life
such as is to be found in the best
tobacco regions of Kentucky
This kind of soil puts a desirable
finish ON the leaf and produces
in it superior quality and flavor
There is dark soil, also, in the
same region, having a foundation
of limestone salt which experts
think is highly adapted TO tobac.
CO.
| c. L. Head OF Salisbury, Mo-, who
has grown tobacco in Kentuck,
and Missouri for the last twenty.
six years, recently visited Iron Tor
on the invitation of several citi
zens to examine the soil and eli
: matte conditions of Iron county a.
would affect tobacco. He reported
that there was a lot of good to
Dacco land in and around Irontol
,, and Arcadia.
. Tobacco is an exceedingly prof
liable crop, and it is managed easi
ly. 1t can be grown with corn, o
with other crops, without inter
: ference.
L. The cheapness and richness o
/. the land around Ironton is attract
ing Kentucky tobacco growers t
Missouri. Good tobacco land i
Kentucky-land no better tha
!. that N Iron county-ranges up
$3.50 an acre. In Iron county, tn
best land can be had for $50 a
I acre, all cleared and sometime
l ,broke."
About ten acres is all one ma
can take care of without help q
at the harvest time. But, with
profit of from $500 to S4OO AN acr,
one can well afford to employ g
;, many men as one has capital I
handle.
{ Even for the small farmer, how
ever, the soil and economic. cond
l. tions in Iron county, particular
in the Arcadia Valley, remuner,
0 ton OF from $4,000 to $500 yea
: clear, is in sight from an inves
ment ON ten acres of land of nj
to exceed thousand dollars.