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to allow from lti to L8 leaves to the stalk. The average yield per acre 

 is from 1,800 to 2,000 pounds. 



The crop is harvested by cutting the stalks and letting them remain 

 in the field until they wilt. Then they are hauled to the barn, where 

 they are speared <>n laths, from 8 to \-J stalks being allowed to a lath. 

 These are hung up in the barn 8 inches apart. 



This tobacco is cured as follows: While the leaves are green the 

 barn should he closed at night and during damp weather and opened 

 during the day: but when the tobacco is half cured, the ventilation 

 should be reversed and the barn closed during the day and opened at 

 night and in damp weather. The tobacco should be fairly dried out 

 and fairly moistened once every twenty-four hours. The curing is 

 completed when the midribs of the leaves are thoroughly dried. 



The soil best adapted to the Connecticut Havana variety is a light 

 sandy loam. 



Ohio Zimmeb Spanish Tobacco. 



The seed bed for this type, which is prepared in essentially the same 

 way as that for the Connecticut Havana, should be sown from March 

 1 to April ir>. and the plants ought to be ready for transplanting 

 within eight or ten weeks. The rows in the field should be 3 feet 

 apart and the plants 22 inches from each other in the drill. The 

 tobacco should be topped when the seed bud appears, leaving about 16 

 haves to the plant. The average yield is 1,000 pounds per acre. 



The Zimmer Spanish tobacco is harvested and cured in the manner 

 described for the Connecticut Havana leaf. 



The soil best adapted to the Zimmer Spanish variety is sugar-tree 

 red uplands or "Miami (day loam" of the Soil Survey. 



North Carolina Bright Yellow Tobacco. 



The seed bed for this tobacco should, if possible, be selected on a 

 hillside sloping from west to east or from north to south, so as to get 

 all the moraine sun and be sheltered from the cold west and north 

 winds. The soil of the seed bed should be as rich alluvial virgin soil 

 as can be had. The bed should be well burned and all the grubs taken 

 out. A little 2-inch bull-tongue plow should be used to break up the 

 soil in two ways so as to tear out all the roots, which should be raked 

 out and the bed made smooth. To 100 square yards put on 100 pounds 

 of hio-h-o-rade fertilizer and 2 barrels of well -rotted stable manure 

 about 1 inch deep. Plow this in with the same bull-tongue plow and 

 rake the bed carefully until the surface is level. After the sowing is 

 completed a heavy roller should be drawn over the bed. 



The seed should be sown from the first to the middle of January 

 and not later than the first of February. This will give plants ready 

 for transplanting by April 5. Harvesting should begin from sixty to 



