The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, January 15, 1914, Page SIX, Image 6
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'
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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^
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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
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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.
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Price, 25c. At all druggists',
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