may be manured as other land: for if the first year's work is well done, it will 

 be prepared to receive manure broadcast. New land should be hilled at least 

 three weeks before transplanting, and while the land is moist, so that the soi 

 will become compact enough to retain moisture, that the plant may thrive 

 without rain after being set out. 



PREPARATION OF OLD LAND. 



A gray, gravelly soil, with manure, will make a fine article of tobacco if the 

 manure is properly applied. 



On common corn-land, the application of two hundred pounds of Peruvian 

 guano per acre (or other equally good fertilizer) applied broadcast, will insure 

 a fine crop; but if the present crop is the object, it may be made with one- 

 half this quantity applied in the hill. 



We have succeeded well by the application of guano in drills. After the 

 land has been thoroughly plowed, lay it off in rows three feet apart, and 

 in these strew the fertilizer. Plow on each side of the rows (turning the fur- 

 rows in) to cover the manure, and form continuous beds, which should after- 

 ward be nicely hilled. We think all upland should be hilled. About one 

 hundred and twenty pounds of guano is enough per acre when drilled. Land 

 for raising shipping tobacco should be more heavily manured; say for an acre 

 six or eight cords of manure spread broadcast and plowed under, and in 

 addition from two to four hundred pounds of some good fertilizer applied in 

 drills. Ashes is a superior fertilizer for tobacco of any kind on any soil. In 

 the Northern and Middle States, where lands are high and the seasons short, 

 the growers of tobacco resort to a system of high manuring, for the purpose 

 of forcing the plants to mature and increasing their production. 'With them 

 it is quite common to apply ten or twelve cords of stable-manure, and, in 

 addition to this, from two to five hundred pounds of guano, per acre. 



TRANSPLANTING. 



When the plants are four or five inches high in the beds, they are ready to be 

 set out in the hills. As a rule, we prefer a medium-sized plant, because the 

 larger the plant the more moisture and sustenance it requires: and the small 

 plant is safer, but not so far advanced as the medium or larger one. 



After giving that part of the bed from which you wish to remove phi- 

 thorough soaking with water, for the purpose of softening the soil to prevent 

 the breaking-off of the finer roots, remove the plants carefully, and wash or 

 shake off all the plant-bed soil in order to give them a fresh, free start in the 

 -oil. Take great care of them, and do not place so many together that 



