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fermentation to develop the desired qualities, such as the aroma. 

 The growing of high-priced wrapper leaf under cloth and slat 

 shades in Connecticut and Florida represents a highly intensive 

 system of farming. 



318. Manufacturing types. These include tobaccos used in 

 all domestic manufactures except cigars. The two leading types 

 are the Burley, grown on the fertile soils of the blue-grass region 

 of Kentucky and adjoining areas of Indiana, Ohio, and West 

 Virginia ; and the bright flue-cured which is grown on the light, 

 less fertile soils of southern Virginia and the Carolinas. Burley 



FIG. 117. Tobacco in the curing shed. (Photograph from United States 

 Department of Agriculture) 



is set rather close together in the row and the plants are topped 

 high, so as to obtain a thin, light leaf. Commercial fertilizers are 

 not required. The crop is harvested by cutting the stalk. Burley 

 is an air-cured type. The flue-cured type is set further apart in 

 the row and is topped rather low. Large quantities of commercial 

 fertilizers are used in growing the crop. The crop is harvested 

 either by cutting the stalks or by picking the leaves as they ripen. 

 The crop is cured entirely with artificial heat. Burley and flue- 

 cured leaf are mild tobaccos much in demand for the manufac- 

 ture of chewing and smoking tobaccos and of cigarettes. The 

 flue-cured type is also exported in large and increasing quantities. 

 Large quantities of dark air-cured tobaccos (Fig. 117), used 

 both for domestic manufacture and for export, are grown in 



