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plants be topped to six leaves. This rule is founded 

 upon the intelligent experience of the best planters in 

 the White Burley district. The tobacco should be 

 wormed at least once a week (see chapter on Pests). If 

 the weather is very wet, the tobacco will have to be 



FIG. 101. WHITE BURLEY PLANT NOT PRIMED. 



This plant was grown at the Kentucky experiment station, under the same condi- 

 tions as 'the typical plant of this variety shown in Plate IX. It was not prop- 

 erly primed, so the bottom leaves rest nearly on the ground and are small in 

 size. The plant was four and one-fourth feet high, with a spread of four feet, 

 being slightly wilted when photographed. The top leaf was 28 inches long 

 and 10 wide, iniddle leaf 35x11 inches. It will be seen that tbe leaves are even 

 larger than those in Plate IX, (jiving a larger weight per acre, but the amount 

 of unmerchantable leaf is much larger, the quality usually not as good, and 

 the tobacco will not sell as well as when the tobacco is properly primed. 



suckered three times. The suckers should never be 

 allowed to grow longer than three inches. 



Harvesting. From four to five weeks after topping, 

 the tobacco should be fully ripe. The plants are then 



