New England tobacco grower by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. [etc.]
Published: 1902-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

THE NEW ENGLAND TOBACCO GROWER

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Essex Tobacco Specials and Special Manures for all Crops

*T^ HE manufacturers of the Essex High Grade Fertilizers would re-?BS=- spectfiilly invite the attention of all who are interested in farming to ' inspect the crops grown in the Connecticut and Housatonic-Valleys, that are raised wholly or partly on their high grade manures.

Although the season so far has been irregular as to weather conditions, we are daily receiving the most flattering reports from our customers showing that to succeed in all seasons you must use Essex Manures.

Give us your orders for Fine Ground Bone and for our Grass Manure if you are seeding down this fall. There are no better in the market.

RUvSvSIA CEMBNT CO., Gloucester, Mass. E. B. KIBBE:, General Agent, Box 752, Hartford, Conn.

E.ast Texas Investigations

THe Soils Described as Suited for the Production of Different Types of Tobacco

1 H. SHELFER, formerly a to-M-^a bacco expert of the Department of Agricultuie, says of the East Texas tobacco investigations;

"These experiments have demonstrated that there are three sections of the state that can grow a cigar tobacco of commercial value, but each being of a different type.

•'The red or chocolate belt will produce, in my opinion, the highest grade of Cuban filler that can be grown in the United States, and will ecjual the average Cuban filler imported to this country. By using the cloth shade one can grow as fine a wrajjer as is now being grown in Cuba mider shade, having the same grain, appearance and aroma.

"The sandy loam will also produce a grade of filler tobacco eijual to any now grown in the United States, and wrappers could be successfully grown under shade.

"The gray sandy loam is more adapted to the culture of Sumatra wrapper, while there could be grown a Cuban leaf that would make a fairly good filler.

"The climatic conditions found in this part of the state are favorable to

the growth <if the weed. These soils lie in a radius of oO to l.TO miles of the gulf, and being on the first elevated or rolling lands, get the benefit of the gulf clouds, fogs and dews. The rainfall is evenly distributed through the year, so that irrigation is not necessary.

"As this experiment has demonstrated what kind of soil will produce these high grades of tobacco, it is now up to the people to have their soil examined and classified. Where you find the .same soil in the same climate it is not necessary for the government to experiinent any urther.

"The government is an experimenter, but not a developer, and this rests with the i)eople. "

OHIO EXPERIMENTS

Twin \'alley, located in the southern part of Montgomery County, Ohio, and in which (.Jermantown is situated, is said, by local persons, to have "the finest soil for tobacco raising to be found anywhere in the United States." This has the old familiar ring. It is stated that land in that vicinity commands as high as i*2."">U per acre, .simply because of its great atiaptability to tobacco raising.

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