Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1859 — Tobacco Seed, [ARTICLE]

Tobacco Seed,

Now is the time to sow it. If it is put into a cloth, and tied up and then dipped into blood-warm water and hung up by the stove brother warm place a couple of days it will start much Carlier than if sowed ! dry <m cold ground. Prepare a bed on soil free from weeds, or where the ground has been spaded in so deep that tbe_vveeds willj m t come up as soon as the tobacco, level the bed down smooth and sow the seeds on top. coverthem with dirt, but press them down hard on the ground and theyffvill grow. I Or sow them on a spot where a brushheap i has been burnt oil, sow on top of the ground i and tread them down. When as large as a dime, select the best plants and set them out on rich soil two and half feet one way and two feet the other, keep down the w'ecds with cultivator or h ie; they need no'hilling up. Or set tliem-on new soil land, if the soil is sandy; jt may be as well for the crop.