The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-11-18

ent localities. but |; does not 70 to Aay
extreme like tobacco We ao noE fua
some counties making cotton ~uitAlIe
Ter only sheetlug. or another county
making cotton ft Tor hosiery o.ly. or
/ one section in any way marked from
another except that the sea Islands =
the carolinaS and Georgia make the
sea island cotton. But each section
\ or The United States tobacco produc-
/ ing territory has its own peculiar Va
rleties or tobacco. and each Is u~-i
/ for different purpose.
/ The bright tobacco or the ncN belt
OF North Carolina comes a. near be-
| ing an all-round tobacco as any for
/ II Is adapted for cigarette and cut
plug smoking. for granulat~d smoking,
Tor plug filler and wrapper. II i not
much OF Il cigar tobacco. Tho remark
able growth OF the consumption or
North Carolina bright leaf since i
4 nrst commenced 10 make itself popu-
lar soon after the war seems Ia show
signs OF continuing as the tobacco
trade expands. as the bright lear - A
mid. fragrant tobacco. with loW nice
une content giving the smoker Tho
flaNors he desires without the afYen-
siveness Of the stronger varieties.
1t seems that this variety Is con-
fined TO the State of North Carolina
and an extension OF the new belt In
/
tobacco experts say that the south
Carolina tobacco does not fully lass
up with that OF North Carolina
Whether this is wholly justified may
be open TO debate. yet il is possible.
that the soil and climate pecuiiaTitieS
of South Carolina differ from thos..
of North Carolina. IL seems 1 faNt
2 that most of the South Carolina 10
l bacco is lighter in leaf and color than
the North Carolina product. yet i =
pretty hard to determine where light
ness of leaf and body become fault
and cease to be a virtue.
More labor Needed.
> But counting the South Carolina
!, part of the new belt and the field hat
= will produce bright leaf is still seen
: to be limited. If the demand from
China or from anywhere else should
o be very great on the bright leaf sec
o ton the extension of the tobacco farm
! in the counties east of the Peedee Will
; have TO be marked in the next few
4 years. And with tobacco II is like
; with other crops North Carolina
q has the room in the southeastern
q counties to grow tobacco in enormous
9 Quantities. but it has not the people.
G And there we get back again 10 the
same old point OF disturbance. The
II increase OF the tobacco crop very ma
: terially means that it must be at the
productive labor becomes more pro-
n ductive. or machinery comes to help
q out the present force. or an addition
q to the labor factor is found some
: where in an unsuspected quarter
o Fuel Question Involved.
1t For a time it was figured hat the
o production of flue- cured tobacco de-
d pended on the amount Of fuel 10 D-
/ had on the farm where the tobacco
ic a Hsta h =
d wood to fire each crop OF tobacco
d But at the prices that have been pre-
1t vailinG tobacco men say they can buy
n coal for firing purposes and make a
'e good profit in tobacco as compared
o with other crops. Tobacco not only
o goes up in smoke itself but X takes
e thousands OF cords OF wood alone
d with il in the process OF curing. and
h this feature OF tobacco raising ha,
i been one of the serious questions with
tobacco farming. IF tobacco = goins
1t to make inroads into tho coal trade !
re brings in more complications, Hhici
r. merely goes to show that when a a.p
< industry gets started. or an old -ndus
al try begins To expand along new IN y
you can never tell where 1t will ga,
of to. nor what il will involve d IT orp
~ crosses.
s. The government crop report ort
ID few DAYS ago. shows that the io';acc.
% crop Of the United States this year
Of about six per cent short Of ~ crol
te Of last year. and probably the srnalles
pc crop made in fige or six years "orrI
ID noting is that the crop viii not D
TO more than five or six per cent pisse
i'll than the crop OF fourteen years ago
\. This is accounted for in some respect
b, the discoUragement IN the Tenn -
Is see and Kentucky tobacco districts
I'd for while North Carolina j. fEdiG
n trouble to keep up with the derfan'
ie for bright leaf the western tooacc
II. sections have found the trade con
Is ,jdera BILE deuoral.zed az times
ne And bright leaf seems to he "a
ID ,nr;a.N ahe trade wants now