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therefore, a most useful quality of tobacco, and though 

 its color is more red than yellow, it has supplied a want 

 for plug for which the thin, highly colored tobacco 

 grown on fresh soil is not at all suited. It is an ideal 

 filler for plug tobacco, having a large absorptive 

 capacity, mild in its effects upon the nervous system, 

 delicate in its flavor, and withal is very popular with 

 consumers. 



The soil is the most potent factor in the growth of 

 the White Burley, as it is in the growth of the yellow 

 tobacco, or the heavy-shipping leaf. Take the soils of 

 one of the typical counties, Owen for instance, and they 

 are classified by the planters according to their timber 

 growth. Plot 1 has a growth of sugar tree, beech, tulip 

 tree, hackberry and butternut, and is first-class bluegrass 

 land; this soil makes the largest number of pounds 

 per acre, but the product is red, heavy and gummy. 

 Plot 2 has a growth of white oak and more clay and 

 less sand in its composition ; the tobacco grown on it 

 is thin, bright and silky. Plot 3 resembles an alluvial 

 soil, filled with organic matter; the timber growth is 

 ash, locust, poplar and oak ; it grows a rough, heavy 

 tobacco useful, as a general thing, only for fillers and for 

 wrappers in the manufacture of the cheaper grades of 

 plug tobacco. 



The White Burley soil in Ohio consists of modified 

 glacial drift, and occupies, beside the Ohio river basin, 

 the fringing spurs, which rise to a hight of 400 to 500 

 feet above the Ohio river and run back from the basin, 

 uniting at a greater or less distance in a plateau country 

 deeply gashed at intervals by the tributaries of the Ohio 

 and Miami rivers. Many broad areas of level land occur 

 on this plateau, so flat, indeed, that in times of exces- 

 sive rains, they overflow and form temporary lakes. 

 The drift, or glacial deposits, contributes mainly to the 

 formation of the soils of the district, though there are 



