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consists in frequently stirrin^i^ the ground with the plow 

 or cultivator and hoc, and keeping down weeds. The 

 places of such plants as fail or are blighted, should be 

 at once filled up, and all worms destroyed." 



From Bcatfifs Southern Agriculture. 

 " The field should be laid off into ridges, by a single 

 horse plow (to prevent the ridges from being trodden 

 by the off horse), from three to three and a half feet from 

 centre to centre, according to the kind of tobacco which 

 is intended to be planted. The ground should be crossed 

 at the same distance, by a shovel plow, or one with a 

 double mould board. The ground will now be in a con- 

 dition, requiring nothing more to be done to prepare for 

 the planting, but to cut off the centre of the square or 

 ridge with a broad hoe. This last operation should be 

 performed when the plants are of sufficient size for set- 

 ting, and should be made only so many at a time as 

 there will be plants to fill the first season that happens. 

 Plants can only be set after a rain, and much care should 

 be taken in this operation, for if plants are well set they 

 wjU grow quickly, but if badly set they will be kept 

 back some time, and many hills will require to be re- 

 planted. This will cause much additional labor and ren- 

 der the crop irregular as to the time of ripening." 



From B. H. Fheljjs^ statement in the Patent Office Re- 

 port, we take the following : 



''A moist time is preferred for setting out the plants 

 (about the 15th of June in his locality, near Hartford, 

 Conn., or when the leaves of the plants are about the 

 size of a silver dollar), when they are placed in rows 

 about 3 by 3 J feet apart. 



From the Prairie Farmer of January 10, 1863. 

 '' Mark out in ridges, three feet f^t, four inches apart, 

 which may be done with a winged shovel plow. Then 

 cross at right angles at the distance of thirty inches, 

 and the land will have been divided into hills three feet, 

 four inches one way, by thirty inches the other. The 

 hills may now be dressed up with a hoe, if necessary, 



