226 now TO make the farm pat. 



and in any climate that will produce corn, but a warm, mellow 

 Boil, is its chosen home. 



The northern cultivator must secure warmth, by selecting 

 an alluvial, sandy soil, or a light warm loam, and increase it by 

 al)undant manuring. The southerner may depend more for 

 warmth upon his sunny climate, and insist more upon depth 

 :ind richness of soil. A heavy loam, or a soft clay, will do him 

 "ood service., There are two exceptions to these rules, and 

 thev are rank soils which produce a "strong" tobacco, and ex- 

 posures subject to strong winds, where the plants will be broken 

 and bruised. The preparation of the soil should be most 

 thorough, as it not only increases the quantity, but improves 

 the quality. We have seen two crops of tobacco, grown on 

 adjoining farms, sell, the one for eight and the other for twenty- 

 two cents a pound, the difi'erence being wholly in cultivation 

 and handling. The one crop cost about fifty per cent, more to 

 cultivate than the other, but it brought one hundred and 

 seventy-five per cent. more. If the land has not been subsoiled 

 for the previous crop, plow in the fall, and subsoil to the depth 

 of at least fourteen inches, and the deeper the better. As early 

 in the spring as the ground will do to plow, the manure should 

 be plowed in. The oftener it is plowed, harrowed, rolled, 

 plowed, crushed, and harrowed, the better condition it will be 

 in for the growth of the plant. It is diflacult to tell just where 

 this working of the soil ceases to be profitable, but our experi- 

 ence is that six workings (including plowing and subsoiling in 

 the fall) is the least to be recommended. This only provides 

 for two plowings, one rolling, and one harrowing in the spring. 

 -Manures are the life of this crop, and it is only by the most 

 abundant manuring, that the fertility of the soil can be main- 

 tained in Tobacco. On newly cleared land, where the soil is 

 tilled with vegetable matter, and the brush has been burned 



