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says : " Tobacco requires a warm, rich, mellow soil." 

 Ill a previous number of that work, we find from the pen 

 of Hon. Geo. Geddes : "A warm, rich, well-drained, mel- 

 low soil, and then twenty-five loads of rotten barn-yard 

 manure, should be put on an acre." 



With reg-ard to the quality of the land required, per- 

 haps enough is said. These views are those of a man 

 eminently scientific and equally practical. Judge Beat- 

 ty's are those of a man decidedly practical arid of great 

 experience. Mr. Periam's, as quoted from the Prairie 

 Farmer, admirably discriminate cases of soil and expo- 

 sure, where it would not be well to undertake the culti- 

 vation of tobacco. And we have not yet heard of the 

 man, whose opinion on such a subject we should more 

 highly value than that of the Hon. George Geddes. 

 His twenty-five loads of well-rotted manure, on soil al- 

 ready deep, mellow, and rich, implies something like 

 fifty loads of green manure, which, at first thought, looks 

 rather steep ; but then it is to be recollected that 2,000 

 to 2,500 lbs. of tobacco is the return reasonably to be 

 expected from such doings, and that the land will give 

 forty bushels of wheat the next year, or any other crop 

 in proportion, and will then give clover and! herds grass 

 in abundance for years to come, without further manure. 

 The idea from the Patent Office Report, that wherever 

 corn will grow tobacco may be cultivated, is undoubt- 

 edly correct ; and yet Mr. Periam, in the Prairie Farmer^ 

 has shown that on some lands of rank soil, and others 

 of windy exposure, it would not be well to undertake 

 the cultivation of tobacco. 



"Warm," "deep," "rich," "not exposed to violent 

 winds," seem to be the requisites of all these and other 

 writers on the subject. Our own opinion is, that warmth 



