OHIO TOBACCO. 



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become still finer as a leaf tobacco, for wrapping cigars. 

 But it is in the production of cutting leaf that the Ohio 

 growers take rank, and ere long will supply the vast demand 

 made upon them for their great cutting variety. 



With a degree of pride peculiar to all tobacco growers, 

 (when any new variety has originated,) they point with no 

 little egotism to their fields of " white tobacco," and ask their 

 fellow-growers of New England to rival this " great plant." 

 So successful have they been of late with cutting leaf, that 

 their fields yield them returns not inferior to many of the 

 choicest tobacco farms on the Connecticut River. The Ohio 

 growers have one advantage over earlier growers of the plant 



OHIO TOBACCO FIELD. 



their land has not been cultivated as long as the famous 

 tobacco lands of the Connecticut valley, and does not require 

 that thorough fertilizing which is so necessary in New Eng- 

 land. Still the tobacco field cannot be too thoroughly pre- 

 pared for the growth of tobacco, whether in the tropics or in 

 the more temperate regions. 



In the curing of tobacco, the Ohio growers have but few 

 equals, and no superiors. At first, the complaint made by 

 the buyers of Ohio tobacco was, that " Ohio tobacco has the 



