. Bulletin : report of Agricultural Experiment Station, Agricultural and Mechanical College, Auburn, Ala. Agriculture -- Alabama. 11 IV. Raising the Plants. The first operation necessary in starting tobacco grow- ing is the making of a seed-bed for raising the plants. A warm sheltered position should be selected for this. It is a common plan to burn a pile of brush-wood on the land selected for raising the plants to supply potash, and at the same time destroying^the seeds of weeds, or the eggs of insects. A more recent plan of raising the plants is under a cov- erino; of cheese cloth in a hot
. Bulletin : report of Agricultural Experiment Station, Agricultural and Mechanical College, Auburn, Ala. Agriculture -- Alabama. 11 IV. Raising the Plants. The first operation necessary in starting tobacco grow- ing is the making of a seed-bed for raising the plants. A warm sheltered position should be selected for this. It is a common plan to burn a pile of brush-wood on the land selected for raising the plants to supply potash, and at the same time destroying^the seeds of weeds, or the eggs of insects. A more recent plan of raising the plants is under a cov- erino; of cheese cloth in a hot bed. Plate Xo. 1 is an illustration of the modern method of covering the plants during their growth both in the open air and hot beds. The area of the seed bed will of course depend upon the extent of the proposed cultivation and as usually about one square inch in space is allowed to each young plant in the seed- bed, it will require a seed- bed of thirty-six square feet, say nine by fourfeet^ to supply plants for an acre planted at equal dis- tances of three feet apart. An ouncecontainsenough seed to plant from six to seven acres, but as it has not a high percentage of vitality it is usual to sow •*> 'at the rate of half an». Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama. Agricultural Experiment Station. Auburn, Ala. : The Station
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