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SECTION XXIV. 



Tulacco Culture. Some R emarks on the Slaves ; 

 made from GeneralJVashing ton's Governance 

 of his Negroes. Anecdotes of the General. 

 Robberies and Thefts by the Negroes. 



TOBACCO is raised in the same manner as 

 cabbages are in England, only planted at a 

 greater distance. A bed is made as early 

 in the spring as possible, generally in a 

 wood, as no kind of animal will touch or 

 eat the plant ; they seem even to avoid 

 treading upon it. The preparation is by 

 felling the timber, and burning the tops 

 on the place intended to be sown with 

 seed ; to raise the plants, the seed being 

 small, the ground is hoed up, and the ashes 

 and earth mingled together as fine as possi- 

 ble. New land is preferred, and treated in 

 the same manner as that for the seed-bed : 

 if old land, it is very highly dunged, or 

 cow -penned, which is by folding the cattle 



