PREFACE. 



The census report of 1860 represents that 429,390,771 pounds of 

 tobacco were grown in the United States in that year, worth, at the 

 low price of 10 cents per pound, $43,000,000, and entering very large- 

 ly into our foreign commerce. Till within a few years, its culture 

 has been confined to a narrow zone, under a stereotyped impression 

 that, south of that zone, the cultivation was unprofitable, and north 

 of it forbidden by climatic influences. The discovery, now fully con- 

 firmed, that it can be grown as well north as anywhere else, has led 

 many farmers, yet inexperienced in the cultivation, to demand some 

 plain, instructive, practical directions on the cultivation adapted to 

 beginners and all others. Hence this manual ; and hence our en- 

 deavors to make it a complete guide to cultivators of less or more 

 experience, from the beginner upwards, and to adapt it to a wide 

 range of climate, by drawing from the well-considered views of prac- 

 tical men over a wide range of country. Such as the result of our 

 labor is, it is here respectfully inscribed to the farmers of this great 

 .and, agriculturally considered, most prosperous country. 

 By their friend and humble servant, 



C. M. SAXTON. 



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