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eggs can be found on post mortem. Satisfactory and economical 

 measures are known for ridding a flock of such diseases. In some 

 cases it is advisable to abandon sheep raising for a time and allow 

 such infection to die out naturally. A period of one year is often 

 sufficient. 



Mucli more attention is given to the subject of common diseases of 

 livestock in Euro])ean countries than in our own- American people 

 are considered more extravagant in many ways than our foreign 

 friends. Money is easier to get and is consec^uently more willingly 

 spent. In some cases the owner may feel that a diseased or injured 

 animal is a matter of small consequence aud allow it to die or be- 

 come worthless rather than to be bothered with treating it. In most 

 eases it is best from a financial, as well as from a humanitarian 

 standpoint, to provide the proper treatment for all suffering animals. 

 This should be done in the way of careful nursing as well as in 

 capable medical attention. 



CULTIVATION AND HAEVESTING OF TOBACCO 



By E. K. HIBSH.MAN, Ephrata, Pa. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: In this talk on tobacco, 

 I propose to tell you the practical side of it; that is, the way the 

 farmers grow it here and the method in which they handle it. Bu"i" 

 before I start to tell you that, for the benefit of those who do not 

 live in this county and are not acquainted with conditions I better 

 explain our system here. Nature has provided Lancaster county 

 with a very deep, rich limestone soil over the greater part of it. 

 Some parts of the county, the northern part and central part, do 

 not have the limestone soil. Through the central part we have a 

 type of soil that is known as Hagerstown loam ; but it is on this lime- 

 stone soil that the greater part or portion of the tobacco is grown, 

 and we do grow quite a good deal here, two-thirds or three-fourths of 

 all the tobacco grown in Pennsylvania. 



When tobacco was first grown in this country, and we follow the 

 history of the different tobacco sections, principally those of the 

 South, we find that they gi'ew tobacco year after year on the same 

 soil and the result of this was that the soils gave out; they farmed 

 out all the humus. But here in Pennsylvania our conditions were 

 different. The first men that began growing tobacco here began 

 growing it in rotation with their crops and that is the way we are 

 growing it today. The rotation here in Lancaster county differs 

 very little from that generally followed over Pennsylvania; that is. 

 the four year rotation, wheat, grass, corn and oats, only instead of 

 oats we grow tobacco and so our rotation here is wheat, corn and 



