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concerned, the best tobacco can be cultivated only ill 

 the Southern States. Elevation has an influence 

 somewhat similar to increase of latitude* This 

 makes the cultivation of tobacco Uncertain in the 

 nigh and mountainous parts of Western Virginia ; 

 while the like risk is not felt in the same latitude 

 farther east, where the elevation is not so great, 



A variety, called the " Connecticut seed leaf," is 

 Cultivated with great success in the New England. 

 States, and at present commands a good price. It 

 requires a shorter season than the kinds cultivated 

 farther South. 



SOIL, 



Tobacco will grow upon almost any good soil, when 

 well prepared by thorough tillage, but the best 

 adapted to its culture is a rich, dry loam, new 

 cleared and brought into cultivation. Although the 

 light clay and sand loams, well manured, are the most 

 reliable for making the finest qualities of tobacco, 

 yet the clay soils produce excellent crops, but require 

 free applications of rich organic manures to render 

 them sufficiently porous. The sandy loam, which 

 has been drifted down the mountain gorges of the 

 Blue Hidge, is the best adapted to the growth of 

 tobacco. The stiff clay lands of the Valley of Vir- 

 ginia and of Kentucky produce a large leaf, strong 

 shipping tobacco, The same may be said of the 

 deep loams of Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. 



VARIETIES, 



" Owing to the great diversity of climate and soil 

 in Virginia, a corresponding change is produced in 

 the grades of tobacco raised throughout the State, 



