360 TOBACCO LEAF. 



Carolina, is cow peas, clover, or grass, tobacco being put 

 on the same land every third year. Tobacco is often 

 put in after an oat crop and also after hog weeds. It 

 seems to be a conclusion, reached after much experi- 

 mentation, that pine, or wheat straw, or coarse mold 

 from the forest, plowed under in the fall, will cause 

 tobacco to ripen yellow on the hill. Old land makes the 

 heaviest product ; new land the brightest tobacco. 



If old land is selected, it is broken in 'the fall with 

 a two-horse turning plow and rebroken with a single 

 plow in the spring, often applying all the manure that 

 can be raked up about the farmyard. This second 

 plowing should only be half as deep as the first. In 

 South Carolina, where very handsome yellow tobacco is 

 now produced, the practice, after breaking in the fall, is 



FIG. 105. HANGER FOB LEAVES IN SNOW BARN. 



to lay off the ground in January, or early in February, 

 in rows three feet six inches in width, and then dis- 

 tribute the manure in these rows, covering it lightly. 

 About the middle of April run a furrow in the same 

 place where the manure was distributed, and drill from 

 600 to 800 pounds of some good fertilizer to the acre. 

 Throw two furrows on this open row. When the time 

 for setting the tobacco arrives, drag the beds down with 

 a log and pat places 30 inches apart where the plants 

 are to be set. 



In North Carolina, just before the plants are large 

 enough to set out, the land is either rebroken and har- 

 rowed, or plowed with cultivators, and then harrowed 

 until it becomes well pulverized. After this it is laid 

 off into rows three and one-quarter, or three and one- 



