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content has been largely increased. Then, following this 

 increase, the grower uses as large a percentage of nitrogen 

 as he did without it and finds that his tobacco grows 

 too rank and late. Following a crop of peas or clover, the 

 bright tobacco grower will need far less of the organic 

 nitrogen in the form of dried blood, since the legume will 

 furnish that, and he simply needs the nitrate, with the 

 same proportions of the mineral elements as before. In 

 the bright yellow tobacco sections in North and South 

 Carolina it has been found that this type of tobacco can 

 only be grown successfully on a gray and somewhat 

 sandy soil. A red clay soil changes the character of the 

 leaf and darkens the color, and the tobacco either becomes 

 a mahogany, well suited for making plug tobacco, or a still 

 darker shipping tobacco. 



In fact, there is no crop grown in this country the char- 

 acter of which is so controlled by the soil conditions as 

 tobacco. Therefore, the different types of tobacco are 

 being grown in the soils and sections that have been found 

 by experience to be best suited to them. In the strong 

 mellow loam soil of southern Pennsylvania a fairly good 

 quaHty of cigar leaf is grown. In Ohio the tobacco known 

 as the Zimmer Spanish is grown and used as filler for 

 cigars. On the Hmestone soils of Kentucky the White 

 Burley has become the sole type grown, and is mainly 

 shipped abroad as is also the tobacco of the greater part 

 of Virginia and Maryland, though in a limited section of 

 Virginia a very fine black wrapper tobacco is grown and 

 used for the making of what is known as Navy Plug. 



In Connecticut the seed leaf tobacco has become fa- 

 mous as cigar wrappers and until the introduction of the 



