The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1913-11-12
In Universal Popularity
and Usage.
MEETS ALL TOBACCO NEEDS
Some Valuable Suggestions
On Its Proper Culture
and Use.
FLUE CURING BEGAN LONG AGO

washington, ID. c., Nov. s.
The normal annual production Ct
fiue-cured tobacco on a farm-weight
basis is estimated to be about 215,-
100000 pounds, according to bulle-
tin No. 16 of the department of ag-
riculture.
This type of tobacco is the only
American grown variety that has
shown a tendency to expand our ex-
ports. About 40 per cent. or around
90,000,000 pounds, is exported and
the remainder is used in domestic
consumption.
"All things considered this fue-
cured type of tobacco is unsurpassed
in universal popularity" states the
report and it is adapted to a variety
of uses, including granulated and
plugfller and wrapper; in fact, it is
adapted to all the regular forms in
which tobacco is used except stand
ard cigars and snuff. In color and
general appearance it is very at
tractive, while its low nicotine con-
tent, mildness, aromatic sweetness,
fragrance and good keeping quail
ties render it very satisfactory to
the user.
The use of flues in curing tobacco
became popular after the close of
the Civil war and by the middle
eighties the demand had increased
SO that about 20 counties in Vir-
ginia and North Carolina had been
planted to this variety. There are
number of varieties of fiue-cured to-
bacco prominent among which are
the Warne, Yellow Oronoco, White
stew Oronoco, Big Oronoco, Adcock.
Adkin, Willow-Leaf. Gooch, Tilley
and Hester. The Warne is the
standard wrapper type and perhaps
the most popular. The Adcock is a
great favorite in the noted wrapper
producing section of Granville
county. North Carolina, while the
Adkin is popular as an early matur-
ing variety.
Apart from the natural character
of the soil itself, there is no more
important matter for the tobacco
grower to consider than the man
agement of his fields. Indeed the
character of the tobacco produced
will depend as much on how the
fields have been handled in rotation
between the successive tobacco crops
as upon the fertilizer used or the
cultivation given directly to the to-
bacco crop itself. Tobacco land
should be so handled as to be kept
in good life. A liberal supply of
vegetable matter in an advanced
stage of decay is highly desirable,
but it should be of the kind not eX-
cessively rich in ammonia
1t is well known that the organic
matter of freshly cleared or broom
sedge fields is of a kind well suited
to tobacco. 1t consists principally
of dead leaves, twigs. roots, pine
tags, broom-sedge and roots. Such
vegetable matter, while poor in am
monia. by its ample volume makes
the soil very mellow and friable
and of good water-holding capacity.
There is probably no better humus
crop for rotation than herd 's-grass
or red top.
Speaking or diseasing. as it is |
generally called, is the most COM
mon disease injury to which tobacco !
in the tlue-cured district is subject |
1t is believed to be a fungus disease,
disseminated by spores. The only |
good. practical method of reducing
the injury to the crop caused by the !
disease is by using potash more lib
orally in the fertilizer, which seems
to increase the resistance of the !
plant to the disease
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