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generally make our finest tobaccos. Among the favorite varieties of tobacco pro- 
duced in our county are the Yellow and Blue, Little Yellow, Pryor Williams, and Beat 
All. All of which, if planted in good lands and well cultivated and properly cured, 
will make tobacco suited for wrappers and more especially adapted for the foreign 
markets that pay the best prices for American tobacco. Plaut-beds are generally 
burned in the richest spots of woodland, with brush or wood, in the months of Janu- 
ary, February, and March, and the plants are ready for transplanting by the 20th of May 
or lstof June. Before the time arrives for transplanting, the lands intended to be plant- 
ed should be plowed deep, well harrowed, and fully pulverized, after which small hills 
should be made about 34 feet apart each way, and after the plants have been set they 
should be well cultivated, never permitting the lands to get the least foul with weeds 
or grass; and another very important pointis to keep off the worms and not allow them 
to cut the leaves full of holes. Tobacco should never be topped to more than ten 
leaves. Cut when fully ripe and carry it immediately to a tight barn, (never 
hang on ascaffold,) and fires should be started under the tobacco soon after it is hung 
in the barn, started and kept up slowly for the first day, after which it might be in- 
creased and should be kept up steadily until the tobacco is fully cured. After which it 
should be assorted, tied in small bands, and neatly bulked. Tobacco thus produced 
and cared for will always sell for twice the amount of such as is poorly cultivated, 
worm-cut, and badly cured. 
The West Virginia crop cannot be considered average in quality. 
The injury from the wet and hot season was greater in some counties 
than in others. 
The complaint of injury to quality is very general in Kentucky, the 
plants being submerged in June and July, and subsequently exposed - 
to great heat, parching and cracking the earth, and “firing” the leaf, 
and resulting in an immature crop, deficient in gum and chaffy in tex- 
ture. In some sections there was too much rain in August. There is 
not so much loss in the color as in other qualities. There is much 
tobacco that is “ frenched.” Bad quality is attributed to bad handling, 
in Fulton County. The leaf is short and the color dark in Pendleton. 
Medium or good quality is reported in Oldham, Metcalfe, and Livingston. 
Cutting and manufacturing is reported bright in Muhlenburgh County. 
Wet weather had its influence in Ohio, and early frost caught a por- 
tion of it in immature condition. Along the Ohio River considerable 
areas were entirely destroyed by floods, and in the interior many fields 
were similarly destroyed. The color, as well as the texture of the leaf, 
suffered injury quite generally. The Warren County crop is represent- 
ed as a total failure. In Noble, new land products are fine. A leaf of 
fair quality, though light, is reported in Morgan. In Adams County 
that grown on rolling land is fine, but the product of level lands is light 
and trashy. In Vinton there was much rain in the early part of the sea- 
son; the later months were very favorable, the plant ripened well, the ™ 
leaf was thick end retained its gum, and the crop is claimed to be the 
best ever raised there. 
The crop of Indiana suffered from causes affecting tobacco elsewhere. 
‘‘ Frenching” was very common, and the cutting was necessarily done 
in many instances before maturity, greatly deteriorating the quality. 
Quality is also lower in Illinois. In some localities increased atten- 
tion has been paid to this crop, and the area greatly enlarged—in part, 
by new-comers from the Southern States. 
A marked increase in the area planted in Missouri is indicated, as the 
tables will show. There is much complaint of injury by wet weather 
and subsequent heat, and frequent mention of ‘“frenching,” but less 
than in the States of the Ohio River. Inexperience in housing and eur- 
ing has affected quality in Saint Charles, and the army-worm wrought 
some injury. Late planting, after the disappearance of grasshoppers, 
left the crop immature at the season for-cutting in Ray County. In 
Franklin, the injury was only from drought and frost. In Chariton, 
quality is generally good; also, in Randolph a favorable season was 
enjoyed; and the product of Howard was very good.” Our Howard 
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