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when the buds are ready to be pinched off ; the leaves 

 increase in size until August and September, when they have 

 attained their growth." In Turkey " when the young plants 

 are about six inches in height they are removed from the 

 small beds and planted in fields like cabbages in this country, 

 and are then left to nature to develop them to a height of 

 from three to four feet ; three leaves, however, are removed 

 from each plant to assist its growth." 



A year or two since, a machine was invented and offered 

 to the growers of the Connecticut valley, called a transplanter, 

 of which we here 

 give an engraving. 

 The inventor claimed 

 that the "American 

 Transplanter " could 

 do the work of several 

 men and do it equally 

 well. It rolls along 

 the ridge something 

 like a wheelbarrow, 

 marking the hills 

 with a sharp joint in 

 the wheel and setting 

 the plants as they are dropped into the receptacles at the top. 



The tobacco plant, like most of the vegetable products, 

 has many and varied foes. 'Not only is it most easily affected 

 and damaged by wind and hail, but it seems to be the espe- 

 cial favorite of the insect world, who, like man, love the taste 

 of the plant. The first of them " puts in an appearance " 

 immediately after transplanting, which necessitates the per- 

 formance of what is known to all growers of the plant as 



WOEMING. 



There are two kinds of worms that prey upon the plants ; 

 viz : the " cut worm " * and the green or " horn worm." The 



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1 Hughes, in his History of Barbadoes, says that the common people call the worm kltlf onla. 



