294 TOBACCO LEAF. 



Green Kiver district of Butler and Ohio counties, whose 

 product is not of such good quality. 



In the Cumberland River district (embracing the 

 Tennessee counties of Smith, Trousdale, Macon, Clay, 

 Jackson and Putnam, and portions of Sumner and Wil- 

 son, and in Kentucky the counties of Metcalfe, Eussell, 

 Adair, Clinton, Cumberland, Monroe, Casey, Wayne 

 and Pulaski), tobacco is grown mainly on the low bot- 

 tom lands and is coarse and bony, wanting in flexibility, 

 deficient in oil, but having a good weight. Heavy to- 

 bacco is grown in many parts 

 of Virginia and North Caro- 

 lina, on dark, rich soils with 

 reddish subsoils, upon which 

 yellow tobacco is never pro- 

 duced. Some shipping tobacco 

 is grown on such dark soils in 

 Maryland and South Carolina. 

 A coarse grade of shipping to- 

 bacco, almost destitute of oil, 

 is grown in southern Illinois 

 and Indiana. Some good ship- 

 ping leaf is grown in the great 

 Kanawha valley and in the 

 counties along the Ohio river 

 TOPPING THE PLANT, in West Virginia, the alluvial 

 soils producing the best leaf. Missouri's production 

 has fallen rapidly, as its leaf has large stems and fiber, 

 being grown generally on rich bottom lands on the 

 North bank of the Missouri river. A little is raised in 

 Arkansas. 



The Color of the Soil seems to exert a great, but 

 not always a controlling, influence in determining the 

 color of the product. Rich clays of any color will pro- 

 duce a heavy, waxy leaf, if properly manured and 

 planted with a suitable variety, one that has a tendency 



