The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-11-18
THIS STATE SECOND IN UNION
!. In VALUE OF TOBACCO CROP
'ny hen.ucky ourpasses lt-Reported Chinese Demand
TOR weed thought to Have Something to Do With
High Prices 1t Has Been COMMANDING

In any useful line, tobacco is of var,,
NIUE value. It's sole place is as .
oeuatiVe, and therefore it can be toll
ela.eo :, py the individual who uses
ITO must undergo an unpleasant
eoucatlon in it's toleration. Then if
becomes almost '~ential to his com
fort - i1i0 eoih
hooo .l'io uHihat, tobacco has
and commercial produc, TR, ,r,d
comparing in this respect \, N
aitnough opium has marked 7fp,
'irtureS, and occupies an impo1,
pace among the prominent drugs H.
constant medical and surgical prac-
tice.
North Carolina was early among
the prominent tobacco colonies of
the united States and has been prom
lnent continuously. OF late wears the
bright smoking tobacco of the state
mas been particularly favored prod
uct, and it is this variety that ap-
pears to be making the hit in the
tobacco trade now.
Second in Tobacco.
The United States makes over a
third of all the tobacco raised on the
globe. 1t takes a million and a quar-
ter acres to raise the crop Of this
country. North Carolina is the sec
ond State in the Union in the value
or its tobacco crop, the money that
the tobacco brings exceeding this wear
probably eighteen million dollars, and
possibly giving twenty millions a close
chase.
Kentucky outclasses North Carolina,
but Kentucky makes a different sort
OF tobacco, and is not at all a rival
to North Carolina's bright leaf smok-
ing. Europe makes twO-thirds as
much tobacco as the United States,
Asia makes still more than Europe.
To supply the whole world with to-
bacco takes million and a quarter
tons year. Almost half the tobacco
Iexported by all the tobacco countries
of the world is exported from the
UNITED States, which it is seen, is the
principal country on which the to-
bacco using people depend for their
tsurpius after consuming their own
icrop.
So much for the general tobacco
lsituation, which has an influence on
1.-THE peculiar tobacco DEVELOPMENT in
North Carolina.
i The growth Of tobacco as a com
mercial crop is practice that had
its origin in America, and probably
in North Carolina. At the first the
darker types of tobacco were raised
and they were cured either in the open
air, or later under roofs, which sub
ISequently gave way to the tight barns
and fires The fiue cured tobacco OF
North Carolina is the elimination Of
the evolution of tobacco curing. About
a century ago it was noticed that the
tobacco grown on the light sandy lane
of Virginia and North Carolina made
a bright colored, ild-flavOred leaf
which found favor in the French mar
ket, and it came to be called French
tobacco. French tobacco seems tt
have been confined to the vicinity O.
, Caswell County until about the out
{ break Of the Civil War, when th'
Northern soldiers became acquainted
with it, and from that time it's FAM
: has spread until bright tobacco ha-
, made the fame Of North Carolina a
| q tobacco State.
Reign of Bright Tobacco.
: The bright tobacco business doomed
+ and the trade that sprung up wa
, marvellous Then it began to be no
ticed that the lands so sandy the
= lwere condemned for other purpose
/ could be made productive for Tobacco
e by the use of commercial fertilizers
: There came the reign Of the brigh
a tobacco.
. From Warren and Wake westwar
9 to Sufry and Yadkin tobacco estab
n llished itself long ago From Wake an
e Warren. under the stimulus OF fertl
Ilizers in liberal doses it spread eas
land south, extending to the sounds o
!. the east, and by a narrow strip clea
r ldown into South Carolina yet keep
o ing a reasonable distance from tn
q coast all the way.
4 The two tobacco sections or II
= State are rather sharply distinguished
q the new belt being in the sandy lant
= the old belt in the stronger clay. TIL
:, nou belt can not make tobacco with
out liberal fertilizer. hence it ha
: |been said that the new belt MAKE
;. its tobacco of fertilizer and sand, m tn
- opened up the enflr