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X-MCLTUII IX PAllVO. 



The whole subject in few ivords. 



BY n. BE.VRDSLEY, OF CONNECTICUT. 



At our earnest solicitation, Mr. Beardslee, a successful tobacco 

 grower of many years' experience, has furnished us the following. 

 He was requested to either give us his experience in the way of a 

 narrative, or to embody the same in the form of plain, simple direc- 

 tions. It will be seen that he has done better than we asked — he has 

 combined the two modes of experiment and precept, and has made 

 his instructions so plain, as we particularly requested him to do, 

 that the beginner in tobacco culture need not err, even with no 

 other instructions before him. 



THE GROWING OF TOBACCO. 



I prepare the seed bed as follows — spade in a largo 

 quantity of manure and wood-ashes. Hog manure is the 

 best — about five or six inches deep, then rake into the 

 top of the bed fine bone manure. It is then ready to 

 sow. 



The seed is prepared as follows: I mix one tablespoon- 

 ful of seed for each square rod, to be sown with fine, 

 rotten apple-tree wood, in a pan ; this can be sown even 

 when it is wet — to be placed in a warm room, near a 

 a hot stove. I keep it moist, adding water as it becomes 

 dry. In five or six days it is ready to sow. I now add 

 to this some plaster of Paris, in order to see that it is 

 sowed even. 



Sow in a still day — rake the bed very light, not to ex- 

 ceed half an inch in depth, then roll with a garden roller 

 or a smooth log about two feet long, and the bed is 

 done. Beds to be three feet wide for the convenience 



