The Richmond climax., June 20, 1913, Image 1

About The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914

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39th YEAR
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RICHMOND, MADISON COUNTY. KENTUCKY, FRIDAY AFTERNOON 3 O'CLOCK, JUNE 20. 1913
NUMBER 76
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Coal, Feed, Salt, Sand,
Lime, Cement,
and All Kinds of Plaster Material
Hauling of All Kinds
Corner Main and B
Streets
Telephone
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WE CAN GIVE YOU
The Best Lawn Mower
for the least money. Call and let us show you
the different styles. Cuts tall, short, thick and
thin grass all alike. We have some special bar
gain prices on these mowers
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an outfit of our toilet aids.
You are not likely to get as
pood where you are going.
We suggest shaving soap, pow
der, a bottle of toilet water,
with the necessary brushes,
etc. Don't put off getting
them. Come buy them now.
Then you'll not have that to
think of again.
Stockton's Drug Store
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JUNE 25 TO JULY 1
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A Treatise on The Cultivation
of Tobacco. . ,
The Farmers' Union of Madison coun
ty invited Hon. Silas Shelbourne, of
Lexington, to address the club here
Saturday but he was unable to come.
much to the disappointment of the
members of the Union, However, he
did the next best thing, i e, wrote on
the subject, "The Cultivation of Tabac-
co," which we publish at the request of
the farmers:
First, we will begin with the seed
which should be selected from varieties
which have proven most profitable in
your selection. They should be well
cleaned and all the inferior- and chaffy
ones taken out. This is a survival of
the fittest, and should be regarded as
very important in the perpetuation of
all the vegetable and animal kingdom.
Sow only the best seed and raise only the
best slock.
After your plant beds have been well
Wnt and prepared, a very small
amount of fertilizer might besowedand
worked into the ground to give the plant
a little start.
The principal working of the tobacco
land should be done before the crop is
planted, and right here we think that
big improvements can be made in the
cultivation of the most of your crops. -I
am decidedly of the opinion that' deep
plowing is advisable. It may not al
ways be best to turn up too much clay
but in order to break the ground deep
enough, the sub soil plow should be us
ed. In this way you can make a deep
bed from 12 to 18 inches which will
give sumcient moisture to make good
crops. The cutting harrow should al
ways follow immediately after the plow.
In order to keep your land from drying
out, it should be worked quite often,
certainly after each rain to prevent it
from baking or forming a crust, espe
cially in dry weather. This mulching
of the top brings the moisture to the
surface. An old planter in Virginia
onoe told me that he did not let his land
get well dry. He said it was like a man
climbing out of an old-fashioned well
so long as he could reach across he
could climb up but when it got so
broad that he could not reach across he
bad to stop. The moisture, like- the
man, will continue to rise so long as it
can reach across, but when the ground
is too open or baked, it will have to
stop.
Where land is very loose it is advisa
ble to roll it before planting your tobac
co. It is undoubtedly best to plant with
the machine, but if by hand great care
should be taken to see that the root of
the plant goes straight down into the
ground, and that the dirt is pressed up
close to it. I have known crops ruined
by bad setting. As to the distance it
should be planted, on good land in order
to keep the plant from getting too
coarse it is best not to plant over four
teen inches apart. The rows should be
three feet, eight or ten inches apart.
In the cultivation of the crop care
should be taken to avoid breaking the
roots of the plant. To do this it requires
very shallow ploughing after the plants
get of any size, but it should be worked
often. It should be remembered that it
is much easier to kill a small weed than
a big one. You can safely calculate that
the roots grow out as fast as the leaves.
The topping of the crop requires some
judgment, but 1 think it is more often
lopped too low than too high. On early
tobacco some of the most successful
growers only break out the bud.
As to the suckering I really know but
Utile, but will give you Mr. Jack
Chinn's "one sucker" method; let any
who choose try it. After the suckers
are all out on the plant from the lop to
the botton he pulls them all out clean
except the smallest one in the top, that
is left to grow and keep the plant alive.
This will stop the growth of suckers be
low. The one at the top is allowed to
grow until six or seven days before cut
tinsr. It is then cut out so the plant
will ripen up. On the early plants some
three or four sucker leaves can be left
which are mostly used for tie leaves.
By this method Mr. Chinn has had great
success. He tells us of the fellow who
wanted to sell his father a coon dog, and
heblowed much about what this dog
could do, but his father said," show me
the skins on the wall." Mr. Chinn has
the skins on the wall to show, having
made for some years past .the best crop
in his section, and Mr. Petty and others
who saw his crop last year thought i
was the finest one in the State, and his
yield was good. We doubt if the one
sucker will lake any more from the
plant than all the other suckers would
Mr. Chinn does anolher thing that is
thought by some to be advisable. After
the tobacco is put on the slick he splits
the but end of tue stalk down to the
slick crosswise of the other split. This
is done to let the stalk dry out, which
be says is very important as it gets rid
of the dampness in the stalk and cures
up the flines, trashes and lugs with better
color. He says one man can split these
stalks as fast as three wagons can hau-them.
We should certainly make some im
provement in the curing of .the crop.
For 35 years we have continued to raise
tobacco and let it damage. This is due
largrly to overcrowding in the barn, but
often a few stalks in an open barn will
damage in a very hot, damp spell, even
after the tobacco is two thirds cured
This shows that we should have a cir
culation of air through the barn to dry
it out, but that the barn should be made
close enough to shut out the dampness
during the damp spells, and on damp
nights. This, however, will not save
the crop from house-burning, or getting
into a sweat that will cause it to lose
color. To avoid this it is often neces
sary to use some fire before the tobacco
gets too high in order. The coke or the
charcoal stoves that can be moved round
in the barn are considered the best, but
in case of necessity for a quick fire, sheet
iron tubs with dry wood can be used
without much damage from smoke.
This is much preferable to having a
damaged crop. Quick fires are best to
dry the dampness out. These tubs can
be pulled around under the tobacco,
but must be moved every few minutes.
We are of the opinion that big im
provements can be made in ventilating
the barns. Side opening, when the barns
are full, are nearly closed up. Openings
in the top and bottom are better; big
doors all around the bottom of the barn
to open up only on the sides where the
wind is blowing, with the openings in
the top and each gable end would make
a belter current of air through the
barn.
The custom here of cutting tobacco
and flopping it down on the ground just
where it is often allowed to stay for sev
eral days, we consider a very bad one,
as it is very ofien caught in the rain and
the dews and sun darken and damage it
very much.
What I have written is only what the
most of you already Know. The dis
cussion, however, may do some good
But I want to say something with reler
ence to the method of farming in this
section. ' It is necessity that develops,
and in this rich country your people
have not felt the necessity of trying to
improve their lands. Your farm is your
national bank, and your principal
aim should be to build it up and make
it more productive. My opinion is that
every piece of land in cultivation should
produce two crops every year, one of
grain or tobacco and the other some one
of the leguminous crops, with the view
of improving the soil. The custom here
of the tobbaco growers of preceding to
bacco with rye should be discouraged,
as it is hard on land, retards the capilla
ry action of the ground and the decay is
not rapid enough to assist the following
crop. It is not a legume and we should
find one to take the place of it as a cov
er crop. Rye is given as the third hard
est thing on the land. First is sorghum,
then millet, then rye, and then timo
thy.
We advise the use of winter vetch, or
crimson clover, to take the place of the
rye as a cover crop. Either are good
crops to precede tobacco. Vetch is said
to be the hardiest growth known in the
vegetable kingdom, and is used for win
ter grazing.
By twelve reports from different ex
periment stations in the Union it is
shown that vetch improved the flow of
milk from the cows over any other food
given them, showing an average of 30
per cent, increase. This winter vetch
should be sown in the fall with a small
amount of wheat to hold it up. It can
be gotten in Lexington at about $0 per
bushel, which is enough to sow three
acres. Jo be used as hay, it should be
cut in the milk slate of the wheat, but
it can be grazed off early enough for the
land to be broken for tobacco or corn, or
it can be sown down in peas to fatten
the hogs in the fall, if you want to con
tinue to improve the land.
Crimson clover will also cost about
the same money, and we think should be
sown the latter part of August. Some
fine crops of this have been made this
year in this county (Fayette ) Both of
these are fine cover crops and great im
provers of land, and we whould be glad
to see the people give them a thorough
test in this section.
If this should be read at your meeting
I hope you will find some suggestions
that will be of benefit lo your people.
Thanki.ig you for the compliment con
ferred by your invitation to be wUh you
at your meeting, I am
Yours truly,
Silas Shelwjkne.
Coal, Goal, Coal!
W. H. Douglas & Son have the exclu
sive sale of Monarch, Va., Red Ash Coal,
an especially good cooking coal. Try a
oad today. 72 tf
All Chairs in Lodge Occupied
by Hoppers.
What is said lo have been a record in
Masonry was e-tablished here last Fri
day night, when Joseph Hopper, Jr.,
had the entered apprentice degree con
ferred upon him by Lincoln Lodge No.
CO, of Stanford. On that occasion all the
chairs of the lodge were occupied by
members of the Hopper family, who did
the work upon the youngest member in
a most impressive manner. Waller O.
Hopper, of Mt. Sterling, a brother of the
acting Master; George D. Hopper, Sr.,
his father, acted as Senior Warden: Geo.
D. Hopper, Jr., a brother, acted as Jun
ior Warden. A first cousin. Dr. W. O.
Hopper, of Perryville, was Senior Dea
eon, and John Hopper, another first cou
sin of Perryville, was Junior Deacon.
The aged and beloved Rev. Joseph Hop
per, an uncle, of Perryville, acted as
Chaplain, It will easily be seen that the
Hopper family believe in the principles
of Masonry. This prominent family are
all Masons save one. Stanford Interior
Journal.
Wheat Wanted
I have made arrangements with one
of the large mills of this section to buy
wheal for them, and I will appreciate it
if you will come to see me or call me by
phone before you sell. Will have plenty
of sacks on short noiice.
Respectfully,
C5-tf " T. T. Covington
Get That Royal Tailored Look?
Your business battle is plenty hard enough as it is. Why
make it any harder? Why handicap yourself?
These days it is mighty hard for a man to
play the part of success when dressed in the
garb of failure
A clever man will not work against needless
drawbacks
He wears the ood clothes always
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Full Dress
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THIS MONTH
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We pay YOU one dollar a day for each and every day your suit is
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ETAXES&FARM?
Would they be a nickel more each year
if you increased your output one-third t
IF WE SHOW YOU that on a moderate investment it
will earn you each year at the least 50 per cent
outside of the saving of labor, and without figuring the
added size of your manure pil. would you en;-rt nn 3
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$104.00 per Acre Farm Sknmi frudiKt the Txo-yti Sduna.
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NOTICE
Having sold my stock of goods and
decided to retire from the mercantile
business, I request all those who have
coupons on my store for goods to present
them at once as they will not be re
deetnable after June 20ih.
A. 5. TUDOR
BALDWIN KENTUCKY
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