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VOL. IX. - NO. 20
EDUCATIONAL TOBACCO MEETING
Seed Selection, Breeding, Fertilizer, and Cultivation of
- the Tobacco Crop—Qood Roads, and what they '
Mean to the Farmers.
Hon. John H. Small and partv
of experts from the Agricultural
Department at Washington, with
Dr Joseph Hyde Pratt, State Geo
logist arrived in town last Friday
night and registered at the Atlantic
Hotel
While here last summer Con
gressman Small promised the farm
eis of the county that he would ar
range a special meeting for the dis
cussio'i of tobacco growing some
time this year and the meeting last
Saturday was the outcome of this
promise.
Although the early morning
hours indicated a bad dav. the sun
came out about niue o'clock, and
assisted by the winds, the clouds
were soon dispersed The farmers
at last began to make their appear
ance and about 10:30 a very respect
able crowd had gathered at the
court house.
After stating the purpose of the
meeting Congressman Small in
troduced to the audience Mr. A. D.
Shamel of the Bureau of Plant In
dustry, who iu an excellent talk
pointed out-how to select -eed, and
with the aid ot photographs of
growing tobacco, demonstrated the
results of this important feature of
tobacco raising.
Mr. Shamel stated that North
Carolina was the second tobacco
state, aud that the crop amounted
1070,000,000 pounds. His talk
was directed specially to the im
provement of the varieties, ss is be
ing done in Georgia, Florida, Mary
land,Kentucky,Tenneesse and Cen
necticut. Increasing the crop by
breeding is pure profit, as there is
no more cost of producing. By se
lecting seed the yield can be increas
ed 50 per cent.
There is a difference in the size
and weight of the seed; hetfvy seed
grow larger and more productive
plants than small, light seed. Mr.
Samel showed how to separate the
seed, having a seed separator on
exhibition. (The cost of the sep
arator is about $3.)
the seed a farm er
can have uniform plants over his
entire field. "this is true as was
shown by the' large photographs.
Futhermore, by careful selection,
the farmer .can have his crops
maturing at different times. This
will enable him to handle the crop
to better advantage. Some to
bacco plants have a large number !
of suckers, while othera have few;
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by selecting the seed from the
j plants having few suckers, a strain
can be raised practically
Mr. Shamel stated that by the
same caretul selection k uniform
quality of tobacco could be pro
duced throughout the entire field.
He told the audience how to save
the seed to prevent cross-breeding,
by placing a stout manilla sack
over the flower of the plants.
Mr. W. W G-een of
station at Chatham, Va., totf of
> his experience n raising the weed
and directed his talk principally to
the preparation of the soil, fertili.
zation, and cultivation.
He began by saving that he had
; not seen a single acre of land with s
1 winter cover crop to preserve fer
tility and humus and to contrib
ute nitrogen, Vetch, rye and crim
son clover were recommended He
gave the practical results of inves
tigations of the" Burt au of Soils and
of Plant Industry. He had raised
tobacco, all his life but did not know
all about growing tobacco, nor did
he know bow much remains to be
found out about tobacco growing.
There has been a tendency to
plant more tobacctT than could
be properly fitted and fertilzed.
m less prosperous times the grow
ers should produce the higher
grades. Foreign nations are trying
to produce tobacco. They can
raise low grades but the United
States should raise only the best
when there is little or no competi
tion from foreign countries.
The yield of tobacco can be in
creased without injury tw quality.
The average yield 'of the bright
belt is about 600 'pounds per acre.
This can be doubled if the best fer
tilizers and the seed are used.
If nitrate of soda is used it should
be applied to individual plants in
field about two weeks after the
plants are set. 11 gives a start to
the plant but does not affect the
quality of the leaf. It is used be
fore the quality of the leaf is de
veloped.
He suggested that the growers
conduct plats to demonstrate the
! value of practical rotations with to
-1 bacco as the main crop, the crops
to come in the following order:
Tobacco, first year; wheat, second
year: grass, third year; corn, fourth
year, and peas, and then tobacco
again.
Thorough preparation of soil is
f most important. Deep preparation
(Jutfrjrrist.
WILLIAMSTON. N. C. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, tgoß
U needed to store water and enable
voting plants to ret well rooted.
Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, State
Geologist, was fstroductd to th»
audience, and his opening remarks
were that be had never liefore had
the opportunity to visit Martin
County, and was indeed glad to bt
with Mr. Small and party ou this
occasion. AcopyT>f The Enter
prise had been haudad him tin
evening before, and he said that
the first thing that he saw as hi
looked at the paper was the head
ing: 'Sand Clay Roads," and he
thought that about as good sub
ject to talk about as any.
Dr. Pratt spoke of the Geological
and E-*onomic survey He said:
How does State geology affect to
bacco? It does so directly. I have
a subject, one word, with three
letters People buy it, but can'i
sell it, and they don't want it It
Is mud, m-u d. North Carolinu
bought one million dollars worth
last year, and buvs it every year.
Mud is earth and water mixed so
as to be soft and adhesive It is
supposed to be iuantmate but it
takes you and your horses and
wagous and hold* thein.
This leads up to good roads.
A pure sand road is better with
water in it than dry. The less
water in a clay road the better,
with a little water, it packs solidly,
with much it makes a loblolly of
mud
''lf you bad a good sand-clay
road leading into YVilliamston, bad
weather would not keep so many
away front meetings lik« this."
Mud makes the farmer lose time
and money too. This deals with
tobacco. A farmer can haul two
or three times as. much over a good
road as over a bad one. It six
miles of road are good and four
miles are mud, you load for the
mud and lose the benefit of
the six miles of good
road. The farmers he declared
pay a bigger transportation (ate
to muddy roads than to railroads.
They buv mud every year and ,lt
sticks to them and keeps them
poor. He advocated an issue of
bonds and the building of good
roads. Then apply a road tax to
paying the interest and principal,
of the bonds. The money now
spent annually and the wear and
tear on wagons and mules will
pay the interest and principal on
bonds. Good roads put the Urmer
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virtue of Peruna. It tea great medicine.
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THKRB are a noet of petty ailment*
which are the direct reeu.lt of the
wea'her.
ThU 1* more true of the exceeelre heat
of summer and the lntenee oold of win
ter, bat 1* partly true of all seaeone of
the year.
Whether It be a cold or a oongh, ca
tarrh of the heed or bowel aomplalnt,
whether the liver be affected or the kid
neys, the oeune Is very liable to be the
same.
The weather slightly derange* the
mnoou* membranee of the organ* and
the reialt 1* *ome functional dl*ea*e.
Peruna ha* become a ntnndby tn
thouundn ot hornet lor minor all•
menlM of ' 
nearer to the market, make the
cost of marketing l&u, improve the
schools and the churches, make a
better community and give more
and better rural free delivery routes
Mr. Matthewson of Appomattox,
Va., who has charge of the ex
periments at that place told of the
whys and wherefores of the ex
periments. He stated that the to
bacco experiments had been going
on only about five years, but in
that time much had been accom
plished, and that he hoped in the
near future to be able to a
better account of the progress. x
Mr. Mathewson explained the
work of the Department of Agri
culture saving that the best way to
help the farmer is to go to the farm
and to the community and localize
the work so it applies to a certain
county and meets the conditions
there, and not those of some other
counties. , The tohaoco division,
created for that purpose, he declar
ed, is anxious to enter the bright
tobacco belt to serve the farmers.
It would study the insect pests,
stalk worm, etc., and learn how to
fight tlWm successfully. This can
be done now by rotating crops
The division would also show the
farmer how to use fertilizers, pre
pare the laud and cultivate the crop
on his own land, so he will be sure
that the experiments apply to his
own land This work is far sup
trior in its practical results to the
farmer in tangible benefits than the
bulletin or speech.
The last speaker was Dr. Bon
steel, of the Bureau of Soils, who
tpoke on soils and soil management.
Dr. Bonsteel spoke at the previous
meeting fast summer ana said he
was pleased to return to Williams
ton to renew acquaintances made
there and to greet old trieuds.
He said in part: "The first step
in successful crop raising is to get
the right crop ou the right soil.
The bright tobacco is raised bestou
sandy or sandy loam soils and the
best crops for quantity and quality
are piodnced iu E mtern North Car
olina on such soils having in add'
tion a yellow sandy clay or clav
subsoil under them.
"It is not only a question as to
what is the best corn soil or the
t»est cotton soil or the best tobacco
soil. The real question is 'what
variety of corn or of cotton or of to
liacco can I raise on the soils I
have?' A good tobacco expert can
tell by the appearauce of a hand of
tob cco whether it was raised on a
sand or a clav, whether it wa.«j. pro
duced in North Caroliua or Ken
tucky."
t He emphasized the address of
Mr. Shamel on seed selection, say
ing: "By proper seed selection
you can develop the variety of to
bacco which is best suited for your
particular soil. This is being done
for cotton and varieties suited to
light sandy soils, others suited to
upland clay soils, aud still otjjefs
suited to bottom land soils /have
oeen developed." \ 1
He advised: "Getthe right var
iety of tobacco ou the right soii,
then improve that variety by breed
ing and seed selection.
' Tobacco should be raised in ro
tation with other crops and to get
good yields of all corps the general
fertility of the soil must be main
lathed. The good farmer sees to
it that his land is well drained.
Plants get all of their food from
the moisture in the soil but that
moisture must be moving through
the soil and not standing in it.
Stagnaut water shuts out the air
aud air must be present to allow
the growth of the plant roots.
Moisture can move through a well
drained soil and it will carry air
aud plant food to the plant roots.
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Iu a poorl\ drained soil the roots
develop near the surface and when
a drought conies the plant and toil
drv up toneather and the growth
of the plant is stopped
"Again, a good farmer prepM*S
his soil carefully He owns his
land from the surlace down to th-
C litre of the earth, end theie htk
much good farm land six inches
down as there is on top. Plow
deeper and turn up an inch of tffew
dirt into the old surface soil. Do
this in the fall so that the rain
and the frost c m break up the new
soil and get it into shape to help
produce the next year's eroo il§L
"The good farmer cultivates his
land shallow and otten. He
dosen't cultivate deep, especially
laiein the season because he wottld
cut off plant roots. He cultivates
shallow to form a dry cover] or
mulch on top and thus to keep the
moisture down where the plant ■—p
use it. He cultivates often to I**-1
vent the formation of a surface
ciustofsoil which would iujttre
the crop in case of drought. One
Alabama farmer increased his yield
of corn 10 bushels an acre hut
year by breaking up such a crtflt
just before a drought. There are
hundreds of such casern
"Don't 'lay by' your corn, at
least uutil it is under full silk, j If
vou get lazy and quit cultivating
corn is liable to get hzy and quit
growing
"The good fanner pays careful
attention tojffcrtilizing his corp and
his soil. The United States uges
fi00.000,000 worth of fertiliser I
each year and 2,3 m different
brands are sold in the South Atlan
tic aud Gulf States. Many of
these are the same goods under dif
ferent names, so a farmer needi lo
lie careful as to what he buys. |
All commercial fertilizers K»ve
best results iu land, which con
tains some organic matter. sonw
humus They help to rot this
humus and this is favorable to
plant gio*tli Hut one should not
rely 011 chemicals alone. They
should be used in connection with I
green crops plowed under These
crops should l>e vetches 01 peas, pt
even winter rye or winter oats. ?§?:■
"It is also true that the best >..»e
suits can be obtained when cr&>6
are rotated. It is not a good prac
tice to raise the same ciop ou the
same land year alter year. Thtrfe
are many reasons or this but the
mam one is decreased crop yields.
Even fertilizers cannot take the
place of crop rotation."
Mr. Binsteel gave the following
formula for a home mixed fertili
zer. This formula is one worked
out by practical farmers and by
experiment stations. It may Hot
ap| lv on all farms but it is good
and in general practice.
1,000 pounds
per cent, goods or better); 300
pounds sulphate of potash; 600
poundeot cotton seed meal; too
pounds Of nitrate of soda AplJj
400 to 800 pounds to the acre,
(Continued on fourth jV
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