Evening star., 1917-04-08

moved to Ohio from Connecticut and,
with the seed he took along. intro
duced another kind of tobacco in the
former state. The son of that man.
with seed from Ohio. began the Guilt
Vation of tobacco in Wisconsin.
While the men of Maryland We're
crossing the Allegheny mountains.
bound for ohio. men from Virginia
going over the mountains IA thcr
south. carried tobacco seed into Ken
lucky. The tobacco grown from that seed
iS dark in color, and large quantities +
IL are exported to England. After tEe
civil war, = new tobacco. called Bur
ley. was developed in eastern Ker-
tucky. 1t is used extensively in IN 5
country in the manufacture of plu
ANA smoking tobacco and cigarsttes
Soil and subSoiis. rainfall, telnrgr7
ture and air. here in the United STATE 3.
as in cuba. have their influence on
quality and quantity of the tohHcc
crop. The Fertilization OF tobacco land
is another involved problem. What :
good for tobacco IN one region nl1
work harm somewhere else. The plau'
ing OF tobacco likewise varies in met f-
DDS. The seeds are sown in beds q
the stalks are transplantcd. Trans
planting in small fields is done b.
hand in large fields. if the ground
level. with "A machine. hich waters the
stalks as we'll. Hand transplant
makes necessary the watering of each
plant with bucket and a dipper.
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Tobacco plants to the acre range
from $500 to $4,000 in number. IT,
rules fo. tobacco growing can't be 70
duced TO a standard. Nor is the har
vesline done the same III one place a
in another. Aid there are three way s.
cf curing q crop.
Tobacco to be air-curcd j. hung in "a
huilding and dried out ny ventiiai!o.
and evaporation. Flue-euring is done
hv heat The tobacco is hung on pois..
and hot air is let in through registers
ilsr as houses are heated by furnaces
iu the cellars. Fire curing - really p"
combination o. heat and smoke. y
hardwood ire is built IN the tobacco
,uul.l and, after burning for a day OF
TWO. is permitted to go out. Three or
four days later another iirr is started
So the process continues TOR holit@
or six weeks.
"Flue- curing requires from three L.
tive days and air-curing from three 70
len days. Fire-Cured tobacco IA naNor-
ed with creosote. being saturated Win
smoke and is terrifically heavy II - "a
great favorite in Italy. and cigar
made of il viii last all day. An Italian
will take a few puffs and half an hour
later will light up again and take an
other pun or tWo 4 Nhol@ clEdi'
S,noked continuously until burned to
the butt, would mean certain death, L
imagine.
ut will surprise many persons to
learn that the first money crop grown
on Manhattan Island was a Held or TO-
hacco planted by the Dutch near the
present site of the post office, in lower
New York. 1t was sent To Holland ana
sold
After the revolutionary war. all the
specie having been drawn out OF the
country. tobacco again passed IN Nir-
ginia from customer to merchant. ana
from employer to worker as medium
of exchange and a measure or value.
Farther north, up in Massachusetts.
salt pork performed those functions In
some Instances. At all events, the edi-
tor OF the Worcester Spy stated IN his
own types that he would accept salt
pork in payment for his paper"
Copyright, 1917 by James b. Morrow.)