CULTIVATION IN THE SOUTH. 



the crop is usually good, and along the valleys are found 

 some excellent lands for its culture. 



As we go South, we reach the great tobacco-growing states, 

 Maryland, Yirginia, Kentucky, and others. Maryland has 

 long been noted for its tobacco, and annually exports thou- 

 sands of hogsheads to European markets. Yirginia, as we 

 have seen, is the oldest tobacco-producing state in the Union, 

 and still continues to raise thousands of acres of the " weed " 

 for home use and for export. In 1622, six years after its 

 cultivation began, she produced 60,000 pounds of leaf tobacco. 

 North Carolina also raises a fine article of smoking tobacco 

 of fine color and superior flavor. This state has long been 

 noted for its superior leaf tobacco, and ever since the first 

 settlement of the state has produced large quantities of it. 

 In 1753 100 hogsheads were exported, the number constantly 

 increasing until the present. In Georgia some tobacco is 

 grown. Havana tobacco was first cultivated in this state by 

 Col. Mclntosh, and succeeded finely in some of the counties 

 along the coast. 



In Florida, Havana tobacco is cultivated altogether. It 

 differs somewhat in flavor, however, so that it is called Florida 

 tobacco, not because it is grown in that state, but because it 

 is a little bitter, unlike that grown in Cuba. Kentucky is the 

 great tobacco-producing state of the Union. Two-fifths of 

 the entire amount grown in the country comes from this 

 state. In 1871 nearly 150,000 acres were devoted to it in 

 the state producing 103,500,000 pounds of leaf tobacco. 

 In Ohio and Missouri large quantities of tobacco are grown, 

 the former state furnishing both cutting and seed leaf 

 tobaccos. The other Western states including Illinois, Indi- 

 ana, and Wisconsin, are engaged largely in its production, 

 and furnish a good article of leaf. 



California for the last few years has given the culture of 

 tobacco some attention, and promises to become a great 

 tobacco-producing state. The United States have cultivated 

 in some seasons 350,769 acres of tobacco, valued at $25,901,- 

 769. The average yield per acre is greater in Connecticut 

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