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have a claim on the crop for advances made on the same. 



Having given a description of the Connecticut, Yirginia 

 and Ohio tobacco growers, we come now to the most exten- 

 tensive cultivators of tobacco in America the Kentuckians. 

 With the exception of the Virginians they are the oldest 

 growers of the plant in the United States,* and are confess- 

 edly among the most thorough cultivators of the plant in the 

 world. The soil of Kentucky is admirably adapted for the 

 great staple, and along the banks of the Green River may be 

 seen the largest tobacco fields in the world. The plant 

 attains a large size, and grows with a luxuriance common to 

 all products grown in the famous " blue grass " region. 



The system adopted by the Kentucky growers is similar 

 to that adopted b}* all growers of cut tobacco, and the fine 

 quality of Kentucky " selections " has deservedly gained the 

 leaf a reputation that must place it in the front rank of 

 American tobacco. The vast quantity grown in the state is 

 an evidence not only of the good quality of Kentucky 

 tobacco, but of the adaptation of the soil and of the method 



KENTUCKY TOBACCO PLANTATION. 



of cultivation in use. As a cut tobacco, Kentucky-leaf is 

 held in the highest esteem, the exportation of the leaf to all 

 parts of Europe gaining for it a reputation hardly equaled 



'Kentucky w8 originally a part of Virginia. 



