12 TOBACCO LEAF. 



towns were built up, hundreds of prosperous manufac- 

 turing establishments of cotton and tobacco followed in 

 the wake of this new tobacco trade. In a few years the 

 soils of the Champaign regions were tested for their 

 capacity to grow this yellow tobacco, and the success 

 with such soils opened a new district for its expansion 

 and cultivation. 



Then the culture extended still further westward 

 over the mountains, to the sunny slopes of Unicoi, 

 Greene and Washington counties in Tennessee, where 

 its growth rescued many villages from decay and planted 

 a prosperity in that region which it had never before 

 enjoyed. Nor is its progress yet 

 ended. North Georgia, western 

 South Carolina, the white lands 

 of the Highland Rim in middle 

 Tennessee and Alabama, the 

 white, sandy and clayey soils of 

 West Tennessee, and of the hill 

 i regions of Mississippi, Louisiana 

 and Arkansas, and the sides of 

 the Ozark mountains in Missouri, 

 FIG. 9. MAKING SN^F, noo. may all be transformed from re- 

 From Fail-holt's " Tobacco." gions of comparative poverty to 

 regions of wealth, through the successful culture of yel- 

 low tobacco. Every year, new territory is being tested 

 for the growth of this tobacco. The thin, sterile, white 

 soils around Tullahoma, Tennessee, produced as fine 

 yellow tobacco in 1896 as was produced in North Caro- 

 lina, and this experiment opens a new field for its growth, 

 embracing 500,000 acres in the center of Tennessee. 



Scarcely less interesting is the history of the culture 

 of the White Burley tobacco. This variety originated 

 in Brown county, Ohio, upon the farm of George Webb, 

 living near Higginsport. In the spring of 1864, Mr. 

 Webb sowed the Ked Burley seed. The plants came up 



