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northern and eastern views of the same subject. Tliat 

 the North has borrowed its practice, with regard to the 

 cutting- and curing of tobacco, measurably, from the 

 South, is highly probable. Has it improved upon the 

 South ? Or, are its innovations only so many adapta- 

 tions to a different climate, and a different system of 

 labor ? "We care not to decide which; and will only say, 

 that we suppose practice on the James or Ohio River, 

 and on the Northern Mohawk or Connecticut, may differ 

 for the best of reasons, and that in neither case need 

 the practice of one region operate as an impeachment 

 to that of the other. 



It will be recollected that Mr. Geddes, in his able 

 report to the Xew York State Agricultural Society, puts 

 the time for commencing the harvest, " When the suck- 

 ers have all appeared down to the lower leaf, every 

 sucker' having been removed as it app'Cared,'' He says : 



Tobacco-house without side-doors, end boarding, and end doors, to show the man- 

 ner of hanging the Tobacco. 



** The stalks are cut at the root. In a warm day, cut 

 in the morning and evening. In the middle of a hot day 



