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in AVisconsin. The "White Burley is a distinct variety. In Mary- 

 land the Maryland Broadleaf and Xarrowleaf varieties are 

 grown. For the flue-cured and the dark fire-cured and air-cured 

 types various suhvarieties of Orinoco and Pryor are grown. 



Soils and soil management. — Both the physical and the chem- 

 ical j^i'operties of tlie soil greatly affect the properties of the 

 tobacco i^roduced. In all cases thorough drainage is essential 

 to success. The cigar tobacco of the Connecticut Valley, the 



Fir,. 44. — Crop of cigar tobacco which has been topped and has reached Ibc pKijjcr 

 stage for harvesting. 



tyi^ical flue-cured tobacco of Virginia and tlie Carolinas, and 

 Maryland tobacco are grown on light sandy and sandy loam 

 soils which are naturally rather infertile. The subsoil also is 

 rather open and sandy except in the Piedmont section of the 

 flue-cured district, where the subsoil is more clayey. The 

 tobacco soils of Wisconsin are sandy loams, light clay loams, and 

 dark "prairie" loams; those of Pennsylvania are fine loams of 

 limestone origin, and those of the Ohio cigar tobacco district 

 are clay loams. The typical Burley soils are the fertile silty 

 loams of phosphatic limestone origin in the Blue Grass regioo 

 of Kentuckv and in southern Ohio, The dark fire-cured and air- 



