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t foe Eicei CLI AX, 39th YEAR Tsday and Friday RICHMOND, MADISON COUNTY. KENTUCKY, FRIDAY AFTERNOON 3 O'CLOCK, JUNE 20. 1913 NUMBER 76 M o O IL IKL IBlaimtoini Wholesale and Retail Coal, Feed, Salt, Sand, Lime, Cement, and All Kinds of Plaster Material Hauling of All Kinds Corner Main and B Streets Telephone 85 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 D. B. Shackelford & Company Put in Your Vacation Grip 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 MnV?:r - RICHMOND mm JUNE 25 TO JULY 1 SB When you want JOB PRINTING, remember THE CLIMAX does only first-class work 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. 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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 SPECIAL prices on white suits Full Dress Tuxedo White Trousers THIS MONTH The Royal Tailors costume the successful man and we measure you for the Royal Tailors. 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