Tom Hayman Raises a
Crop of Tobacco and Shows That This Fine Money Crop Will Grow Fine in
Pasquotank
Tom Hayman of Elizabeth City, who builds yachts for a living
and indulges in a little intensive farming on the side, has a patch of tobacco
5 weeks old that reaches above his waist. A Granville county tobacco grower who
was done here last week says that Hayman’s tobacco is prettier and more
luxuriant in growth than any he has seen in his home county, which is in the
banner tobacco section of North Carolina.
Hayman has made a careful study of tobacco culture, and any
farmer who wishes to clean up some coin on this highly profitable crop can get
the dope from him. He plans to air-cure his tobacco, having plenty of shed room
for the purpose. Veteran tobacco growers claim that this is the surest and best
way to produce the clean bright leaf that has the highest commercial value.
Pasquotank county farmers have never taken hold of tobacco
as a money crop. The few sporadic attempts heretofore made to grow tobacco in
this county, undertaken by men who had neither experience or knowledge of how
to care for the crop, have naturally produced discouraging results. It remained
for Hayman to go after the proposition in the right way, and show that tobacco
can be raised here as well as anywhere else in the State. Perquimans county
farmers have already taken up tobacco growing on a small scale.
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