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TOBACCO RAISING ' IN SOUTH CAROLINA, MR .T N HARPER GIVES GENERAL INFORMATION FOR PLANTING AND CARING FOR CROP. (Concluded from last week). MAKING OF SEKD BED. F( r beginners the most important thinj.r at present to know is how to make a seed bed. The bed can be located on anv well drained place, preferably with rich soil. It should have a southern exposure and, if rwrtce.Klo shnnlrl hp well Drotected by woods. If located in woods, tree;? should be cut at least 50 feet all around it, as shade is harmful and the trees may draw too heavily on the moisture. If possible, the bed should be planted near a stream so as to be watered conveniently if it became necessary. The seed bed should be made any time in January or the first part of February. After the place has been decided upon, it should be laid off about nine feet wide and as long as desired. All the trash should be raked off so as to remove as much weed seed as noMuhle. and then a large bonfire should be made to thoroughly burn the soil to destroy insect eggs, fungus spores and weed seed. Dry pine wood is admirable for this purpose. The bonfire is made by laying skids two feet apart, made of green gum or green pine. On these are piled layers of wood, trash, brush, etc. The burning should continue until the land is thoroughly burned from two to four inches. It is best to burn the tobacco bed when the ground is dry, as the heat under this condition will penetrate much deeper. Afterward all un-j burned particles of wood and coais, j etc, should be carefully raked off. The bed should be lightly plowed or spaded and 100 pounds of an 8-4-4 fertilizer should be applied to every I00|square yards of bed. This fertilizer should be thoroughly hoed and the bed carefully raked. The next day the seed should be sown. Before sowing, the seed should be thoroughly mixed with dry sifted ashes, corn meal or land plaster, using one teaspoonful of seed to one-half gallon of the other material, sowing this mixture on 100 square yards. It is well to sow the 9eed both lengthwise and crosswise, as' -i- -L - surmg an even aisinouuun ui ine seed. The bed should then be carefully raked and rolled. If no roller iB available, it should be packed by tramping. The bed should be protected by a 12-inch board on all sides, which should be sunk into the ground to a depth of four and a half inches. Across this frame should be nailed poles and over these should be stretched tobacco cloth of good grade and carefully tacked down to the edges of the boards. Around the entire bed a ditch should be dug to prevent water from flowing over it or seeping under the bed, as standing water is very detrimental to young tobacco plants. The doth protects the bed from wind-carried weed seeds, insects, and besides moderates the temperature. Some^ iriro i O ncfiH in. (.KI1CS gaiVCUIl?ATU ?T U v- IB UBVU IU stead of the poles to hold up the cloth from the surface of the bed. If the tobacco bed is started off early, it will hardly be necessary to water it, but in case the bed is late in getting started, and a dry spell occurs in the spring, it becomes necessary to water. If the plants show lack of moisture, they should be watered. However, it does not injure them to suffer slightly from drought. About two weeks before the plants are ready to be set, when the warm days of spring come, the cloth should be removed to harden them before transplanting. Sometimes, if the plants show lack of nitrogen by their coloring, three pounds of nitrate of soda is dissolved in ten gallons of water and distributed over 100 square yards, or, better still, the nitrate of soda is beaten into a fine powder and ap plied about noon when the plants are thoroughly dry. CUT WORMS. Sometimes cutworms are destructive in the beds. If they become too much so, they can be destroyed by mixing Paris green with wheat bran and placing it in small quantities in different par's of the bed. Tobacco plants are transplanted when they are from two to three inches long and the leaves about twice the size of a silver dollar. In the Pee Dee section the plants are transplanted from the 10th of April to the 1st of May. It is always preferable to set the plants during a moderately moist season. They should not be transplanted when the soil is too dry or too wet. The plants should be carefully removed from the plant bed by gently pulling them up, and if the soil is too dry | the bed should be thoroughly water- ' ed before removing plants, as some soil must needs be removed with the ' roots. These delicate plants are then transported to the field in baskets in which the plants have been carefully placed in a vertical poai-1 i tion, roots downward. This can be easily accomplished by tilting the basket at an angle of 45 degrees un j til it is filled. After being filleu these baskets should be dipped in water so that the roots will be thoroughly wet. The experiment station at Clemson College has never conducted any experiments with tobacco, excepting with a few varieties, as the station is located out of the tobacco district. We are planning to conduct a number of experiments at our TY ftntiAn n t- TTlAwanAn onrl Q]oa I X CC i/CC OiailUlJ ai r :uicuv^ auu muv at our coast station at Summerville. These experiments will be along the lines of fertilization, breeding, curing and adaptation of different types of soil types, etc. Later in the spring we hope to get out a circular of information on tobacco culture written for those who are contemplating the growing of tobacco. This information will come from experienced tobacco growers of the State, but principally from the superintendent of our Pee Dee experiment station, who is an old tobacco grower.? The 'State. Boys' Corn Club Exhlbsit. At the county exhibit of Boys' Corn clubs at the court house December 13, only five boys brought exhibits. We are working to stimulate interest in this work and sin-1 cerely hope that each school in the county will enroll several boys in a corn club for this year. Below are listed boys making exhibits, with their yields: Emory McGill 78 bu Luke Kirton 76 " Will McCullough 63 " Thad McCullough 62 " Carl Hannah ... 40 " The following prizes were con' tributed by Kingstree firms: People's Mercantile Co?1 pair King Quality shoes. Kingstree Dry Goods Co?1 pair oes. shKingstree Hardware Co?2 safety razors. Williamsburg Hardware Co?Riding bridle. R N Speigner, County Supt Education. An Ideal Woman's Laxative. Who wants to take salts or castor oil,when there is nothing better than Dr King's New Life Pills for all bowel troubles? They act gently and naturally on the stomach and liver, stimulate and regulate your bowels and tone up the entire system. Price, 25c. At all druggists', H E Bucklen & Co, Philadelphia or St Louis. RHEUMATIC SUFFERERS SHOULD USB fyf TlHP H Tho Boat Romody mfe:; Foe ell forma of I Rheumatism Ht^LUMBAGQ. SCIATICA GOUT. 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