Tobacco culture : prize essays . x days, depending 32 HOW TO KAISE TOBACCO. upon the temperature at whicb it is kept. The seedis sprotited sufBciently, whenever, upon disturbing tliedirt, it looks silvery inside. The»beds should be well worked over with the forkor spade and rake. If the soil is inclined to be moist,raise the beds well; if dry, raise them less. TheyshAld be only about three feet wide, to facilitateweeding. After making the top of the beds perfectlysmooth and fine, sow the seed, first mixing enoughground plaster to thoroughly dry the seed and preventthem from falling in bunches.
Tobacco culture : prize essays . x days, depending 32 HOW TO KAISE TOBACCO. upon the temperature at whicb it is kept. The seedis sprotited sufBciently, whenever, upon disturbing tliedirt, it looks silvery inside. The»beds should be well worked over with the forkor spade and rake. If the soil is inclined to be moist,raise the beds well; if dry, raise them less. TheyshAld be only about three feet wide, to facilitateweeding. After making the top of the beds perfectlysmooth and fine, sow the seed, first mixing enoughground plaster to thoroughly dry the seed and preventthem from falling in bunches. The quantity of seedsown should be about one half a table-spoonful tothirty-six or forty square feet of ground. Bo not rakein the seed, but procure a smooth board, lay it on thebed, and with the feet stamp the beds quite ground should never be allowed to freeze aftersowing the seed ; to prevent this, and also for anotherpurpose, which will soon be apparent, construct astraw mat, like that represented in the These I decidedly prefer to those described inthe February Agriculturist, being much lighter tohandle, more easily made, and sufficiently strongto last one season, which is all that could be ex-pected of the other. They are made by laying ascantling (six feet long, one and a half inches wide,three fourths of an inch thick) upon the barnfloor; place a layer of good straight rye-straw uponit, so that the scantling will come about in the middleof the straw, then another layer with the tips the otherway, that it may be of uniform thickness in all itsparts, (about one and a half inches thick.) Place asimilar scantling exactly over it, and with sixpenny nails,nail them tight; with an ax trim both edges straight,and to a width of three feet, and the mat is these the beds should be covered every night,cold or warm ; in the day-time they should be set upat the north side of the bed, at an angle of about sixty-five degrees, by driving crotches just ins
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