PREFACE 



The object of the authors of this work is to give a 

 comprehensive account of the tobacco industry in the 

 United States, and its relations to other countries. 

 Great efforts have 

 been put forth to 

 make exact and com- 

 plete the directions 

 for the culture, cur- 

 ing and marketing 

 of the different 

 kinds of leaf. The 

 aim has been to 

 make every chapter 

 in the first three 

 parts of the work 

 essentially com- 

 plete, though it has 

 not been possible, 



in our limited space, to undertake a technical description 

 of all the intricate and manifold processes of manufac- 

 turing tobacco. The chapter on manures and fertili- 

 zers has been prepared with extraordinary care and full- 

 ness, owing to prevailing misconceptions upon this sub- 

 ject among both growers and the trade. 



The senior author has devoted years to the collec- 

 tion of facts and methods pertaining to the Heavy Ship- 

 ping, Bright, Burley and Perique tobaccos, and has 

 carefully verified disputed points by experimenting on 

 his own plantation. The junior author has compiled 



LEWIS K. CLARK. 



SI. H. CLARK. 



