Ba Se eee ees ee es ae| DAILY REFLECTOR. |end ribs are equally importsntfactors, yet a tobacco may be\produced posessing in the main~all those characteristics aud ret~be very déficiedt in Gombustibili |q a 7 a Y. J- oWHICHARD. Editor.j Subscription 25 cents per Month.» (Bntered =e second-class mail matter.Pat);-. ...-AFTERNOON (EXCEPT SUN~_"""FeSieeeemeenl2 =D ating: Cashier, John R.a. Wand haz fled from Char-)tte suddenly. One thonsand|dollars has been offer:d as al®- reward for his capture. Som e|_ think he has committed suicide.3 Astheinvestigation proceeds he)is found to bea forger as wus a defaulter. The amounts_ cantime to increase ulso and_-will reach at least fifty thous-and dollars There fs ~some_ continue at his being allowed_ toescape. He was at nis home- and no effort so faras is known| Was madeto preveat his fleeing_ from justice.TOBACCO MANURES= The Kinds Productive of Certain Re-= sults.@outhern Tobacconist, Richmond.)_. The tobacco plaut p:obably- posesses more individual peca-liarities thaw any other plantander general cultivation, andbecause of its pecoligeifies itseultare cannot be engaged in with@By measure of saccess by farm@rs voskilled and inexperiencedim bandlivg the crop. The differ-@nce in grode and quality of to"bacco was recoznized at a very_ @arly period in the hixtory of its @ultivation and cut ea iieat rec"_ erds of saies show'ng very differ-' emt prices, depeodiuy almost eu-"tirely upon quality. Notwith-standing the early and gsneral= BE pobuitios of difference in qual-_-atres of tobacco, we find that_ there is a very decided lack of in-|tion upon the subject of |se aint are the requisites of soil, offertilize tion aud of growth which" goto make up the desired quali-Of course tobaccos for differentGi poses are graued upon veryiferent seales, but the bulk of.erop is used for smvking andgod itis smoking tobacco thatrules aud «els the prices in themarket. In smoking tobacco theavor and aroma imay be said toprimary essentials and if~ty, that is baving a poor burninyquality, and, in cofseguent -\thereof, be very nearly worvhiess,~and in order to ve used to anyadvantage at all must be mixedWith tobaccu pOssessing a very©| good combastibtiity, thas causingove tobacco to burn and sell theT'otber.A goed burning tobaceo is Orethat owill ntinue $2: glow forsome consider time after be-ing ignited, nee ~pale, prayor white ash and 1n cigars the ashshould hold togéthber.There is no plant ander gener-al caltivation that ex1n ~be wodi~ded to a greater extent tm ome orall of these essential qualities byfertilization ahd cultivetion thanthe tébaeco piant; aad particular.ly is thistiue in regard to com.bastibility. Experiments haveshown that the combustibility oftobacco is chiefly dependent uponthe cowposition of the ash ; thati¥, upon the proportion and com-bination of the mineral coastitaents of the plant.In appiyimg rertilizers or m -nure of course itis always desirable to produce an iucrease in theyield aod in geuweral that is theplimary otject of fertilization.and it is only in the increase ofyield that we commonly book theorofit from the application ofwanuare. With tobaceo we findcarselves confronted with a very~different condition of affairs, itoften being easy to prodace auincrease in tie tiefd, but the product will be of au inferior qualityand, in consequence, its totalyalue much less than it wouldhave been withour the fertiliza-tion- Again, fertilizers will oftenshow irtic 1f awy Increase in yield,but cause a eréat improvementin quality, and thas giva retarnsby bringiag mure per pound thanit would have otherwise. TheMaryland Agricaltural Experi.ment Station has been makingexpétiments alung this line andstadyipg the flect of our chiefl?f-rtilizing element upon the -ing habits of . the. tobaccoquality, aud= making the texture,ness of leaf with smail veinsburning: ee tee ~axperi:Maryland soils, yebnave brought!out m facts that are ualapplic to the erup whe :tgrown. The experiments show{the petash saits to. be -tbhe most~potent factors in changing thecomposition and quantity of thetobacco produced. It was shownvery plainly that muriate of pot-asb, kaivit and low grade sulphate 6f pdtash were ubfii far useas & tobacco fertihzer and shouldnever be applied to lands thatwere ever to be cultivated in tobacco; because the chiorinewhich these potash salts ~centainis taken up yecy freely by thetobaecce piant and chlorine alwaysproduces a tobacco with badburning qualities. Ou the otherhand, high grade sulphate of potash always improved the burningqualities. Carbobite of potash(ashes) prodaces tobacco witbithe best combnstibility. The application of potash was in mostin yield, but in mauy cases theincrease was smail.Phosphorié acid proved to havebut litthe direct bearing upon thecombustibility, but 1t generally.produces a very decided increas-in the yield. Lime and magnesiacompounds in small quantitiesseemed to producé little effectpro orcon, but in large quanti-ties it produced a tobacco thatcared badiy and had an inferiortexture ; the dtration of glow wasconsiderably larger with lime andmagnesia tubacco, but iu manycases the ash wes of a bad colorOn the whele, while lime and mag-sesia will often very materialiyincrease the yield, yet theirquality is such ¢hat their applica:tion Canudt be recommendded,The salient priaciples io theuse of fertilizers for the tobaccocrop may be summarized as fol-lows:ist. Apply fertilizers with ref.erence tu the improvement of thequality rather than the quantityaod uever sacrifice gquality ofobacco for quantity-Qud. Many things that pro-duee marked. inerease in yieldmake tobacco of iaferior quality.3rd. Use. _coucentratéd " fertileeoP neg aces apply fottilinere.t0tobacco that. contains "" ifcases accompanied by an increaseTYh orine | orycausestobacco to burn badly.6th. Néyér apply commonsuits to tobacco lands. .7th. Donot furnish the pot~tash of a tebacco fertilizer bymeans of muriate of putash as itprodaces a bad quality.8th. Do not apply kainit totobacco or tobacco lands, as itproduces a bad quality of tobac-co.9th. Do not use low gradesulphate of potash in tobaccofertilizers as it causes inferiorquality in the tobacvo.10th. Bigh grade sulphate ofpotash always improves the qual-ity of tobaceo and generally in-creases the yield.llth. The tobacco having thebest combustibility was grownwith carbonate of potash but thecost of carbonate often excludesits use.12th. Never apply lime tolaud immediately before plantingitin tobacco. In fact its badeffects in curing will sometimeslast for seyeral years.13th. Phosphotic acid géner-ally increases the yield, but doesnot affect the quality.14th. Nitrogen produces in mestelses an increased yield, but tomarked effects on quality could bedétectéd.15th. Yard manure is not welladapted to tobacco, as it is aptto coptain detrimental chlorinécompounds and contains réla-tively too much nitrogren and toolittle phosphoriv acid and potdsh:H. J. 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