410 TOBACCO LEAF. 



leaf, or some of its sub-varieties, was generally grown 

 throughout the cigar-leaf sections of the North, but now 

 its place has been quite generally taken by domesticated 

 Cuban or Havana seed tobacco, several strains or sub- 

 varieties of which are used in different localities. Tiie 

 way in which this variety has supplanted the old broad- 

 leaf is a marked instance of the change that may come 

 to even the oldest agricultural industry. At present, 

 the broadleaf is grown in perfection mainly in a limited 

 section about East Hartford and Windsor in the Connec- 

 ticut valley, where about 2000 acres are annually devoted 



FIG. 116. GOSLEE'S RIDGER AND MARKER. 



Made by the Belcher & Taylor Agricultural Tool Co., Chicopee Falls, Mass. 



to it. Where plants are set by hand, the Goslee ridger 

 (Fig. 116) is often used. Its wings gather the earth 

 into a ridge, with the fertilizers that are spread broad- 

 cast for starting the plant. The smoothing plate that 

 the machine rides on smooths the ridges, and the wheel 

 with the points partly makes the holes for the plants, 

 and spaces them off. 



Doctor Daroczi, editor of the Hungarian Tobacco 

 Gazette, of Budapest, has propagated tobacco from slips, 

 and claims that the leaves harvested from such propa- 

 gated plants are finer and of higher quality than those 



