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half, feet apart, and in these rows about 75 bushels of 

 stable manure, and from 2oO to 800 pounds of some 

 good commercial fertilizers, are distributed per acre. 

 The fertilizers used are highly ammoniated guano, or 

 superphosphates of lime, containing about eight per 

 cent of phosphoric acid, three per cent of ammonia, and 

 three per cent of potash. It is believed that too much 

 potash will cause small, white specks ("frog eye") to 

 appear on the leaves. Upon this fertilized row two 

 furrows are thrown, making a ridge. Over this ridge a 

 drag is run, leveling it down to the general level of the 

 surface of the ground. Shallow rows 

 are ran at right angles to these decap- 

 itated ridges, and the land is ready for 

 planting. In East Tennessee, the rows 

 are run off from three to three and 

 one-half feet, and the hills made from 

 18 inches to three feet in the row. FIG 106 



The hills align only one way and are HOOKS ON LATH. 

 made over the fertilizers dropped in the row. In parts 

 of Virginia, the practice is to throw four furrows instead 

 of two on the fertilized row. This wide bed is then cut 

 off and patted at intervals of two feet ten inches, the 

 patted spots indicating the places for setting the plants. 

 Tobacco set out with the plants aligning only in one 

 direction can be plowed in one way only. 



The planting and cultivation of the crop and the 

 worming and suckering are done in the same manner, or 

 with but little variation, that has already been de- 

 scribed in the chapter on heavy shipping tobacco. In 

 South Carolina, the planting begins about the 10th of 

 April, in North Carolina and Virginia, from the 1st of 

 May to the 10th, and the season continues until the 

 10th of June. In some parts of East Tennessee, nota- 

 bly Hamblen county, tobacco planted on new lands is 

 not plowed in cultivating it, but simply hoed twice. 



