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Crop For tanners i'-JS O ?-.? f ,r, Jrged As Cash Expert Gives Advice on Grow itg of the Big Money-Mak ing Tobacco Plant ? Many Farmers Testing It Q\it This Year. By A. L. BROWN j (Extension Department B e.r n ?rd Warehouse*, Greenville, Tenn.) This message is to the farmers and tobacco raisers of Western North Carolina who have this year reaped the reward that is due them in the splendid prices they have received at this market for the tobacco they have raised. If I can say something here that will assist them in raising a high priced crop next year I will have been more than repaid. But first I want to tell you some- ' thing that ought to make you proud that you live in this great mountain section. I know you have heard of " those great Kentucky blue grass farms where peope used to think was the only place where good Burley tobacco could be raised. In Kentucky j farms are cheap at $300 per acre,! yet, did ytu know these mountains ' and valleys of oars that sell for from $50 to $100 per acre are pro ducing right now burley tobacco that is bringing on our floors right now an average higher price than the burley grown on these far famed Kentucky farms? It means just this, you have in Western North Carolina! a soil and climat? unsurpassed for raising high priced smoking tobacco. You have learned by experience how , to grow and handle it so that you ? J richly deserve the compliment that I ' was recently paid you by Chas. j 1 Penn, vice president of the Ameri- ! ' can Tobacco company, who said 1 that in his opinion that this was the ; 1 best burley producing section in the * United States, and that the kind of ; ' tobacco you raise cannot be over ! : produced for many years. Su||?*twiu So, at the beginning of another - tobacco season ! will offer a f eW ; ' suggestions taken from the exper- j 1 i1 A Clear Skin Ib tW outwd ain ?f ? healthy body. CaMtipatioa sad MMM produce pfa?pi?. blotefaca. IllUvMI, l|* vrisklM aad dull ?Ml oi tU tyei. Dr. Thacher's Yegttmblt Syrup Mriebea tha blood, banish o? biliouaneo ao4 , caaatipatiea, lends rigor and buoyancy to th? (tap. and a feeling of well-befog to the mind. 50c and 11.20 botUee sold and guaranteed K ? I j DAVIS-LONG DRUG CO. Pboaa 86 Brmrd. N C. EYES EXAMINED GLASSES FITTED LENSES DUPLICATED Brevard Office in P. 0. Building Open Every TUESDAY Afternoon W. H. HAWKINS & SON 49 Years of Satisfaction HenderaonriJle, N. C. ience of more than a thousand suc cessful growers I have visited all over the tobacco .section since last September and offer them to you for the coming crop. I cannot do better right here at the beginning than to quote from a talk make over the radio some weeks ago by Johnnie Bernard, who you all know, for it is about seed beds, the beginning of all crops and one of the most important parts of the whole undertaking. Mr. Bernard said : "The foundation of a good crop of burley tobacco is plenty of healthy plants. To obtain these you should burn your beds early and burn them deep in order to get all the weed seed and plants killed out. Make your beds in good rich soil and twice as many plants as y?u think you will need for you may nave a neighbor that will make a failure. Do not sow too thick, for it stunts the growth and your plants will be healthy. Mix half an ounce of seed with a quart to half gallon of spe cial tobacco fertilizer and mix it thoroughly when you get ready to sow, this will give you a better dis tribution of the seed over your bed. Selfish Plant Tobacco you know is a selfish plant, you have to give it plenty^of attention and humor its whims, but if you do this your crop is sure to produce for you a cash in hand yield. >.' , . When you are ready to set out your plants see that your ground is well worked and into each hill work a small amount of special to bacco fertiliser in order to start the little plant off in life with the best possible soil surroundings. If the land is thin you will possibly want to work additional fertilizer into :he rows laer on, but be careful m :he use of nitrate of soda. To make auick growth and produoe a strong stalk nothing is better than nitrate of soda if you use it with gerat care for here is no danger of burning your plants. When used in seed beds it is best to use it in Propor tions one ' tablespoon heaping full ?o a quart of water and sprinkle it on the beds. Nitrate is taken up very quickly in^o the plant thereby causing a quick growth. Cultivation Clean cultivation from first to last is another very important step in the production of a good tobacco crop, for the quality depends largely up on keeping your patch free from all other growth. You should use the utmost care in setting out your plants. We all know that the ten dency is towards light smoking to bacco and that is what is bringing the best prices. In the ordinary crop you will get enough of the heavier leaves to supply the demand for chewing tobacco. There is still a very great shortage of light colored and" weight smoking tobacco which will keep the price high for many rears yet even if our acreage is doubled. These lighter grades de oend much upon how you set your slants. If your land is strong and well fertilized plants should be set from 12 to 14 inches apart in the ?ows. Topping tobacco should be eft to your own judgment and the :ondition of the soil and plant, but he best time seems to be when the jlant is in bloom. Early planting is urged upon all as me of the important things in the iuccess of tobacco raising. Exper ence has shown that those who set jlants early make the best showing Tobacco Farmers In the State ? ? Are Among the Most Pros perous People ? Would Lift Mortgages In This County. at curing time. But you say, we must have ' a season. That is true and I ap only advising this so that you will take every opportunity to plant early, for you will find it will be much easier to get a good stand l before hot weather. v Barns Important Barns and barn room is the next most important item in connection ; with tobacco raising and is often neglected until the last moment, which always tells in the wind up. If you do happen to have any spare , time I b?| ieve the farmers should be gin now getting your barns in shape for the coming season. j The best cured crops of course, come from the best built barns, but this does not mean that you must build new barns if you have none, provided you have out buildings that can be planted up so that tne sun and wind cannot beat in on your , sticks. You must have ventilation if you would keep your tobacco from barn scalding. If you are going to build a new barn from unseasoned logs or wet lumber it should be done as soon as possible in time for the sap or dampness to dry out before 1 curing time. Damp wet barns are as bad as no barns. Rotation $f crops is another very important thing. We all know that it is bad for any land to put the same crop two years on the same land, and this is especially true of tobacco. No matter how well you care for your land or how rich it is, two years are long enough to keep it in tobacco; one is better if you have the land. Of course after you have skipped one year you can go back to the same ground provided you have let it rest by making a pasture i VlT JiV ;inn.l 'l(J) ,? \r?r out of it. Take care of your land if you would help make this a great tobacco raising section, but do not try to increase your acreage beyond your ability to care for and prop erly cure the tobacco you raise. Increased Acreage Increased .acreage is one of the mqjn points of this message to you. Many farmers ask me if they should increase their acreage this year ? would it not' depress the price. There is not the least danger of this if you raise the ^ same kind of good tobacco you raised this past season. The to Dacco acreage' in Kentucky has reached its limit. No one expects ? that this section will ever be able | | to increase its acreage to any extent, | ! certainly it will not keep pace with | | the increased demands for smoking ? tobacco. Therefore our opportunity ! jhas arrived to double our production ? and therefore . our incorre. If the ? .Greenville market should sell 50,-' i 000,000 pounds of burley tobacco in a season it would not exceed the de mand for this type. On our market J we can tell North Carolina tobacco ' as far as we can see it. Soil, climate and knowing how to grow it has put this tobacco in the front rank, es pecially is this true of Madison and Buncombe counties, but from Yan cey and Haywood counties have i come some of the finest tobacco rais ed in the whole area, yet in these counties the acreage has been small. On our floors tobacco from Yancey county has averaged more than 40 cents, while Haywood has been a close second. Getting to market is not what it - used to be. Now you have a net- ! work of fine roads that will be ready for you long before the next crop, over which you can come quickly and get back home just as easy. Daily papers like The Citizen, | of Asheville, comes to you each j rooming to briijg you the news of | the market and tell you the best j time to sell. Greenville, the market j in the South, is at your, very door i and is expected next year to have j twenty of the keenest best buyers in ? the business today. So that the out look was never better for the farm ers of Western North Carolina, and i we stand ready at any time to help you by suggestion or if necessary by personal visits to make this coming tobacco crpp the best that has ever been raised. ? FOR ECONOMICAL TRANSPORTATION NEW SIX CYLINDER CHEVROLETS on the road since JAN* 1 ? To satisfy the overwhelming public demand for the new Chevrolet Six, the Chevrolet Motor Company has accomplished one of the most remarkable industrial achievements of all time. 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