PREFACE. 



been made of the excellent work done by Prof. E. S. 



Goff, at the Wisconsin experiment station, by F. G. 



Carpenter, at the North Carolina 



experiment station, and by Dr. 



S. W. Johnson of Connecticut, 



and by Nessler, Schloesing, and 



others in Germany. 



Among the practical men 

 who have contributed valuable 

 aid, we would mention, in Vir- 

 ginia, in Richmond, Hon. S. P. 

 Carr of the Davenport ware- 

 house, James M. Gentry, Cam- 

 eron & Cameron, J. Wright Co. 

 and William M. Dibrell ; John 

 Sims of Maxwelton, Halifax GEORGE L. WIMBEKLY, N. c. 

 county, himself a successful planter, who has descended 

 through a long line of successful tobacco growers reach- 

 ing back nearly 200 years. Mr. 

 /;'. I- Carr has never failed to respond 



promptly and cheerfully for any 

 information, and when the facts 



'r'^l^ were not at his command, he 



has spared neither time nor ex- 



JB pense in securing data for us, 



v and his substantial and ready 



^JL^T' ^ft^. assistance fully entitles him to 



^^^BPrf ^^feb share with us in the authorship 



of the work. 



In Tennessee, our obliga- 

 tions are due to F. W. Taylor 

 1 *"*i'i**^?= and George C. Ourtlirons of Mor- 

 WALLACE TAPPAN, NEW YORK, ristown, to C. Austin of Greene- 

 ville, Jack Crouch of Clarks- 



ville, Hon. James G. Aydelotte of Tullahoma, Walter 

 Fort and Mr. Harned of Robertson county, Otto Giers of 



