. How to improve the tobacco crop of India. Tobacco. ordinary paper bag, which is a very simple, cheap, and at the same time effective method of protecting the flower from cross-pollination and injurious insects. For this purpose the 12 ft size bags are found admirably suited, as they give sufficient room for the proper development of the flowerhead of an ordinary tobacco plant, and at the same time they are not heavy enough to injure the pla:it in any way. The bag with a roof-shaped bottom is. Photo takev by Mvharajkumar Victok X. Xvkayax. Hon* of a tobacco grower who is a tenant in Senor Sua
. How to improve the tobacco crop of India. Tobacco. ordinary paper bag, which is a very simple, cheap, and at the same time effective method of protecting the flower from cross-pollination and injurious insects. For this purpose the 12 ft size bags are found admirably suited, as they give sufficient room for the proper development of the flowerhead of an ordinary tobacco plant, and at the same time they are not heavy enough to injure the pla:it in any way. The bag with a roof-shaped bottom is. Photo takev by Mvharajkumar Victok X. Xvkayax. Hon* of a tobacco grower who is a tenant in Senor Suarez's plantation in Puerto de Golpe, Cuba. better than the square bottom shape because it sheds the rain better. The proper time for placing the bag over the plant is just before the earliest flowers begin to open. After five or six days the bag should be temporarily removed, and all suckers broken off. It should be replaced at once, and elevated a little above its original position, in order to give sufficient room for the develop-. 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 De Majumdar, I. B. [Cooch Behar, India, Gupta Mukherjee & co. ,]
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