72 MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS. 



West Virginia: 



Third district: Virginia Oronoco, Virginia Sun Cured, North Carolina Bright 



Yellow, Kentucky White Burley. 

 Fourth district: Virginia White Stem, Virginia Sun Cured, North Carolina 

 Bright Yellow, Kentucky White Burley. 

 Wisconsin: 



First, Second, Third, Seventh, and Tenth districts: Florida Sumatra, Florida 

 Cuban, Ohio Zimmer Spanish, Connecticut Havana. 



CULTURAL DIRECTIONS FOR THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF 



TOBACCO. 



Florida Sumatra Tobacco (Northern Districts). 



A very rich spot should bo selected for the seed bed of Sumatra 

 tobacco grown in the North. In the early fall this plot should be 

 plowed and divided into beds 6 feet w^ide and any desirable length, 

 surrounded by a wall made of boards, 2 inches thick and 12 inches wide, 

 set 2 or 3 inches in the ground. These beds should be highly fertilized 

 with cotton-seed meal and stable manure, well spaded in to a depth of 

 6 or 8 inches, and the whole covered with leaves, manure, or trash to 

 keep out the frost during the winter. About April 1 this top dressing 

 should be taken off and the bed again spaded and the soil well pulver- 

 ized, after which another application of cotton-seed meal or cotton-hull 

 ash should be given. This should be raked in and the surface made 

 smooth and loose, making the bed ready to receive the seed. About 

 five days before the time of sowing the seed should be put to sprout in 

 apple-tree punk, made soft with warm water. This should be put in 

 a fruit jar and kept in a warm room. It will be observed that the 

 seed will be slower in sprouting than domestic tobacco seed, and it 

 will not sprout uniformly; that is, all the seed will not sprout at the 

 same time. It is best to wait until nearly all the seed is sprouted 

 before sowing. Mix the seed with bran or cotton-seed meal and sow 

 at the rate of 2 tablespoonfuls of the seed to 100 square yards, after 

 which a heavy roller should be drawn over the bed, thus packing the 

 seed well into the soil, making the surface smooth and preventing the 

 rapid drying out of the soil which would otherwise take place. If 

 the ground is dry, it should be watered immediately after sowing 

 the seed, and this should be continued from time to time as the soil 

 may require. In the absence of rain after the plants are up watering 

 should still be practiced. 



There are many enemies of the seed bed in the way of insects, so a 

 careful watch is necessary. As soon as there is any appearance of 

 flea-beetles or horn worms, the bed should be sprayed with par is green 

 mixed with water at the rate of 1 tablespoonful to 2 gallons of water. 

 In order to keep down the insects, the bed should be sprayed at least 

 three times a week. It is safer to protect these early beds with can- 

 vas stretched on frames made over and around the beds. 



