Roark
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Friend and I were discussing me growing for him and several others and he forwarded this link to a free E-book. Haven't read it all, but it looks interesting.http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/tobacco/tobacco.html
Virginia-Carolina Crop Book
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Roark
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And here's another on Crop Rotation in Organic Farminghttp://www.sare.org/publications/croprotation/croprotation.pdf
Hunting for well tested information is always a good thing. Keep in mind that this particular "book" was a 1915 advertisement for a specific brand of chemical fertilizer. At that time, there was an intensive marketing effort to get tobacco farmers to stop using free manure, and instead purchase chemical fertilizers. The "book" contains a lot of ill advised (and some scary) recommendations.
"To this is added an ounce of Paris Green. About a table-spoonful of this is dropped through the field at intervals of about five feet. Another good bait may be made by spraying a small portion of a clover field with an ounce of Paris Green to six gallons of water."
Paris green is arsenate of lead. They also recommend treating seed beds with formaldehyde.
Some of the harvesting information is okay, though the curing information is not particularly useful or accurate.
You might enjoy going to www.archive.org and searching for text containing the word tobacco. One of my favorites is The Tobacco Leaf, by Killebrew, though there are a number of others. The (huge) pdf versions are usually worth the download, since the text-only versions are often difficult to read, lack many or all of the illustrations, and are littered with gibberish that results from failed optical character recognition.
Bob
I read a study of the effect of Paris Green on tobacco (I've forgotten the reference.). It was conducted around 1910. They had a panel of smokers smoke cigarettes made from Paris Green dusted tobacco. All of the panelists said that the cigarettes tasted just fine.
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I say bring back DDT. Everything you think you know about it is total bullshit.
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Yeah... probably should have added a disclaimer "for historical interest only". I also found a reprint of an old 1914 or so State Soil study of the San Bernerdino Valley that was interesting as hell. It mentioned that the prevailing use of aged manures by the more prosperous Vineyards and Orchards was probably something that the Ag Dept. should look into trying to market to the other burgeoning chemical farmers in the area (especially given the endemic water rights and soil alkalinity issues that have always plagued the area). It would appear that the chemical companies were the only ones that took heed of the suggestion, and quickly buried the report and redoubled their efforts to eradicate any sign of sensible organic methodologies in the Valley. Hmmm, and now they have an alkalinity that rivals parts of Death Valley, go figure.
Matter of fact, Marlboro's tasted just fine to me... til I tasted a real cigarette that my neighbor had rolled for me. I'm sure Agent Orange tastes just fine too.
Why halt the devastation of malaria and AIDS in the third world when you have an enviroweeny constituency to keep sexually aroused (as I do believe that is the effect imparted every time they experience some idiotic conquest of logic and sense). The World Health Organization will not allow AIDS treatment drugs, or funding of prevention programs, to be distributed in any country that allows the use of DDT - even when employed to control malarial mosquito populations that kill and disable millions. The lesson for equatorial Africa is quite simple; choose your poison. You can die from AIDS, or malaria, but we won't help you fight both. Dr. Schweitzer's spinning in his grave. Call it part of the New World Order population control program. Hey, it's either that and/or wars... socialism can't very well redistribute enough wealth to actually feed everybody. Besides, they only need enough serfs to keep themselves fed and cared for. The publication of "Silent Spring" caused such a ripple effect of hysteria propaganda that Hitler would have wept. We haven't seen any campaign as successful as that again til the Patriot Act/HLS scam that still haunts us. Terror threats my arse crack. *** "Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England… nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament , or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All we have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country." - Herman Goering, Nuremberg Trials. *** "Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government." Henry Kissinger, Bilderberger Conference, Evians, France, 1991 *** Whether it's DDT or "terrorist threats" it all works about the same. Tell the big lies often and loudly enough, and by morning it has become accepted as fact.
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