In a number of the “Charleston Southern Planter,” a remedy is described for preventing the destruction of plants by the fly.  The writer says:  “I had a bushel or two of dry ashes put into a large tub, and added train oil enough (say one gallon of oil to the bushel of ashes) to damp and flavor the ashes completely:  this was well stirred and mixed with the hand, and sown broadcast over certain patches, and proved thoroughly effectual for several years, while parts left without the remedy were destroyed.”

The best ground for raising the plant, according to Capt.  Carver ("Treatise on Culture of Tobacco,” &c.), is a warm rich soil, not subject to be overrun with weeds.  The soil in which it grows in Virginia is inclining to sandy, consequently warm and light; the nearer, therefore, the nature of the land approaches to that, the greater probability there is of its flourishing.  The situation most preferable for a plantation is the southern declivity of a hill, or a spot sheltered from the blighting north winds.  But at the same time the plants must enjoy a free current of air; for if that be obstructed they will not prosper.

The different sorts of seed not being distinguishable from each other, nor the goodness to be ascertained by its appearance, great caution should be used in obtaining the seed through some responsible mercantile house, or individual of character.

Each capsule contains about a thousand seeds, and the whole produce of a single plant has been estimated at 350,000.  The seeds are usually ripe in the month of September, and when perfectly dry may be rubbed out and preserved in bags till the following season.

There is a large quantity of tobacco raised in the southern part of Indiana annually, equal in quality to the tobacco raised in Kentucky.  In some counties the article is extensively cultivated, and generally pays the producer a handsome profit on the labor bestowed on it.  The cultivation of it is becoming more extensive every year.  Nearly all this crop is taken to Louisville for sale, very little being shipped south on account of the producer.

Heretofore, owing to the heaviness of tobacco and bad roads, the producer has encountered great difficulties in getting his crop to market.  The hauling of a few hogsheads fifty or sixty miles, or even forty, is no light job, even over good roads.  Hence, tobacco has not been as extensively cultivated as it would have been under different circumstances.  But, with the facilities afforded by the railroads in carrying their crops to market, I doubt not the farmers of the interior will more generally engage in the cultivation of tobacco, and those who have been in the habit of raising small crops will extend their operations.