The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-09-30
THE TOBACCO CROP.
It Is of Quick Growth Early
Marketing and Profitable
Returns To The Farmer.
By JOSEPH e. ROBINSON, in
GOidSborO Argus.
Il. ROBIN
GOAdsborO Argus.

The culture Of tobacco requires GER
tain conditions Of climate as we'll as
certain qualities Of son. for 1t draws
from both soil and atmosphere. and
the soil and climate OF this particular
section Of North Carolina are pecu-
liarly harm onized in furnishing the
requisites for the most successful to-
bacco culture. In fact before to-
bacco was introduced to civilization.
Manteo through Sir Walter Raleigh,
who took him to England. in the six
teenth century, where votaries to the
weed" were so speedy OF conquest that
tobacco quickly became IN exchange
commodity Of current acceptance, this
peculiar section Of eastern North
| Carolina. then nameless save in In
dian diahect, was noted in h tradi-
tons OF the Red Man for the peculiar
aroma, pungent relish and pleasing
aftermath of its tobacco, due-though
not then known why-to the distinc-
tive humidity and softening effect
upon the atmosphere from the cur
rents shot inward for an hundred
miles, by forty miles wide, by the
Gulf Stream, in making its noted
.elbow bend,' which it does off the
coast OF North Carolina; and SO from
the slopes Of the Pacific, across The
! Rockies THE Alleghanies,' and
serhe Blue Ridge" when travel was
by trails and traffic was by barter
came denizens of those mighty forests
which swept with their sable skirts
the singing sands Of those shores that
hold back the tapping waves from the
Golden Gate" bringing BEADS OF
pearls to exchange for the weed tha'
could not be found elsewhere so deli
cately attuned in soothing effect wheI
the feast Of the hunt was over anC
the wigwam fires were lighted a
eventide.
Goldsboro is on the rim Of the west
ern limit of this peculiar clrcum
stanced territory. The air current
from the Gulf Stream above Spoken
of. are not traceable, either in storm
warding effect or atmospheric cond1
tons. to any a~pprec,abie eaten. ives !,
Of this city, but they dominate u
marked and distinctive degree
! swathe OF about forty miles Wid
:. from here to Cape Look Out, Wher
the Gulf Stream makes its "eiboV
:. hend." and in his SO favored secuol
! every requirement Of soil INC ci
mate are combined as nowhere els
: for the growing OF the best topacc
, the American continent al produce
It is simply up to the VIII
occupy hts territory to wake up I
s a fuu realization Of their advantages
8 and devote more OF then Intelligent
r and time and acreage to the cuitTva
ton Of tobacco. 1t is a crop OF quic
growth, early marketing-is SO de
9 sired-and always profitable return
: and is always matured n sa1ei
: housed before the fall eQoihoAi
storm period passes, which at times
o SO devastating to the cotton crop, thi
a is long of growth, slow in matarin
r and tedious in gathering.
OF course cotton is still the KIM
commercial crops IN the South, an
our arner are not advised by US NJ
are they going 70 AhAndon its cultur'
D but for the climatic and soil como
ttons herein pointed out az peculiar
II nreyaTline In the territory descT1ps
and 50 conductive to the