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Beatty, we suppose to be the same usually called the 

 tobacco-worm in the North and East, a large green, and 

 very offensive object, and an enormous chewer of to- 

 bacco. 



The cultivation and protection of this plant, according 

 to all the directions we have suggested and collected 

 from what we regard as good authority, and, spread be- 

 fore our readers, would seem to be somewhat laborious, 

 but more care-wearing and time-consuming. And yet 

 we have often heard farmers of much experience say, 

 that the cost of an acre of tobacco is no more than that 

 of two acres of corn. This may be true, where the 

 manuring is but moderate, the cultivation slight, the 

 protection from enemies but partial, and the crop but 

 small and not remarkably nice. But those who succeed 

 in selling from an acre from 2,000 to 2,500 lbs., of so fine, 

 a quality as to bring them 8 or 10 cents more per lb. 

 than average prices, we suspect find it necessary to 

 expend much more than they would on two acres of corn, 

 and certainly they can afford it, in view of the greater 

 income from one such acre than from two of corn. 



Hardly is the cut-worm out of the "way, and some- 

 times the tobacco grower, soon after transplanting, has 

 to hunt up, pursue, and slaughter two or three hundred 

 of these per acre, day after day, before the horn-icormf 

 green-worm, or tobacco-worm, as variously called, makes 

 his appearance. Scarcely ten days in succession, from 

 first to last, can the field be left to take care of itself. 

 Three months of constant care and frequent toil attend 

 the growth, and about as many more the harvesting, 

 curing, and marketing. 



"We know of no short way of dealing with the cut- 



