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larger and heavier, but their effect on the character of the 

 leaf is injurious, the salts destroying its fine qualities, so that 

 it sweats and cures poorly, and compared with the finest leaf 

 burns dark and emits a rank and unpleasant odor. 



The Connecticut tobacco grower requires considerable 

 capital when engaged extensively in the business, as ordinarily 

 he buys large quantities of fertilizers and requires many 

 hands to cultivate the crop. On the largest tobacco farms 

 the sheds or "hanging houses" are built near or in the field, 

 and are sometimes very large, say two or three hundred feet 

 in length, and capable of holding the crop of from five to ten 

 acres. 



His broad fields of the weed can usually be seen from his 

 house and he loves to show to visitors the plants growing in 



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all their luxuriance, or to sit on his piazza and call attention 

 to their waving leaves and graceful showy tops. Few 

 tobacco-growers can discuss the relative merits of the num- 

 erous varieties like the Connecticut planter, and he is well 



