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Poimned Iran. — To 2 pecks of bran or coart^e corn meal add 4 ounces 

 Paris jrroen or 8 ounces disparene and 2 (juarts of molasses or honey 

 or 5 pounds coarse sugar. If sugar is used, moisten the bran with 

 water. Stir and mix thoroughly and scatter over the field. 



Poisoned horse manure is safer than poisoned bran and somewhat 

 cheaper. Pokos and army worms like it fully as well as the sweetened- 

 bran, and cattle, chickens, and other domestic animals are less liable 

 to be poison(>d through eating it. The Japanese beetle seems to pre- 

 fer the poisoned l»ran. 



The tield l)eing prepared and the plants read3% they can be set out 

 at any time of the year when the soil is in a moist condition and the 

 sk}' is clouded. Plant only good, strong, healthy plants in the field. 

 It is poor economy tt) set a sickly plant anywhere and give it care and 

 cultivation, with but little chance for a return from it for the time and 

 labor expended. 



If the sun is shining when the seedlings are transplanted, the young 

 plants need some shade until they start. Ti leaves make a good 

 shade. Stick the stem end into the ground and bend it over the 

 3'oung tobacco plant and fasten the other end with a handful of soil 

 laid upon it. 



In Ilamakua tobacco can be set at any time and will grow, but it 

 will grow better and faster from February to September (warm 

 weather), although, if set in September and October, if the ground is 

 wet, it will make enough growth to mature a crop during the cold 

 weather. 



Care should always be used in handling young tobacco plants, as the 

 leaves and shoots are very brittle and tender and break easily. 

 Tobacco should be planted on slightly raised ridges, some 3 or 4 

 inches higher than the surrounding ground, as it facilitates drainage 

 and places the plants in a more decided position and less liable to 

 injury through cultivation. 



The distance between the plants in the row and the width of the 

 rows is governed by the kind of tobacco planted and the use to which 

 the finished leaf is to be put, whether wrapper or filler. The right dis- 

 tance to plant must be determined by each planter to suit the type of 

 tobacco grown and the character of the soil. In Hamakua the cigar 

 tobaccos, such as the Cuban, Sumatra, Connecticut Seed Leaf, and 

 Zimmer Spanish, do well 15 inches in the row and 3 feet 5 inches 

 between rows. An acre set at this distance contains about 10,000 

 plants. The manufacturing tobaccos, producing a larger leaf, require 

 more room each way and should be. set 2 feet 1 inches apart in rows 1 

 feet apart. 



In about seven to eight weeks after setting in the field the plant will 

 send up a head or seed cluster, which should be removed in all cases 

 before any of the flowers open. 



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