Excerpt from The Southern Planter, Vol. 67: A Monthly Journal Devoted to Practical and Progressive Agriculture, Horticulture, Trucking, Live Stock and the Fireside; May, 1904 The preparation of the land for the planting of the tobacco crop should have attention, as the plants should be set out in the latter part of the month or the first week 1n June. The late cold spring has caused much delay in raising plants, and we hear that they are still very small, and will not be ready to set out as early as usual. Let the land be well and finely broken, and Especially well fitted so that the small plants may have a chance to immediately take hold and commence growth. In our last issue we gave advice as to the fertilizer to use on this crop, and to that issue we refer our readers. We would like to see Virginia tobacco growers make an effort to pro duce a particularly good cr0p this year, as we believe that it will pay them to do so. The high price of cotton will cause many tobacco growers in the Caro linas to abandon the crop and plant cotton in its place. This will make a better market for our to bacco, and if the quality made is only good we are of opinion that it will sell for a paying price. To make a heavy crop of good tobacco calls for plenty of rich fertilizer in the soil and a well prepared soil. In the Northern tobacco sections it is quite a common prac tice to apply from to pounds of a high grade tobacco fertilizer to the acre, and from such fertilizing heavy crops of fine tobacco are made. We would like to see experiments made on this line here. We believe that it would pay upon the dark heavy shipping types of tobacco. Let the fertilizer used be rich in potash and nitrogen, so as to give quality and size to the leaf, but keep down the phosphoric acid so as to avoid coarseness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.