CHAPTER XX. 



CIGAR-LEAF TOBACCO AT THE WEST AND SOUTH. 



During the last few years of agricultural depression, 

 many special crops, heretofore confined to limited 

 regions, have been experimented with in other sections. 

 Where these experiments have proven successful, such 

 crops have been largely grown. Not many years ago, 

 the broom corn supplies of the United States came 

 largely from the Connecticut valley, then the crop 

 emigrated to the Mohawk valley, but now it is mainly 

 grown in Illinois, Kansas and Nebraska. Hops were 

 formerly largely grown in New England, but were 

 superseded by hops produced in Central New York, yet 

 the remarkable success of hop culture on the Pacific 

 coast has caused such overproduction and low prices 

 that it is a question whether the New York State hop 

 industry will be able to maintain itself. 



Whether a like state of affairs is destined to come 

 about in the cigar-leaf tobacco industry remains to be 

 seen. It is true that for many years this industry has 

 been confined to limited areas in New England, Central 

 New York and Eastern Pennsylvania, but it has long 

 been a feature of Southern Ohio agriculture and, more 

 recently, in Wisconsin. During the past six years, cigar- 

 leaf tobacco has been experimented with in many other 

 sections of the United States, and in some of these cases 

 with such attractive results as to indicate that the 

 industry is destined to have a large development in 

 those regions. Promising results have been obtained in 

 certain parts of Nebraska, especially at Schuyler, in 

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