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chewing-tobacco ; but here it is good for nothing for that 

 purpose, and is too coarse for cigar- wrappers." 



According to Dennis, an Indiana planter, " selection of 

 seed depends upon the kind of land you have and the 

 quality of tobacco you wish to raise. Rich, fertile 

 bottom-lands will grow only heavy, strong tobacco, and 

 it is the interest of the farmer to select that kind of seed 

 that will produce the plant of the greatest weight ; in 

 other words, to make weight the prominent object in the 

 result of the crop. Thinner, poorer land will produce 

 tobacco of lighter weight, but of finer and more desirable 

 quality, and one that will bring a correspondingly higher 

 price. The Orinoco tobacco is raised extensively in 

 Missouri and Kentucky for heavy tobacco, and is known 

 in market as Kentucky Leaf. The seed for the finer 

 qualities passes (as does the other also) under different 

 names, but may be procured in Pike and Galloway 

 counties, Missouri, and in Virginia; the Orinoco, and 

 kindred kinds, in Howard and Chariton counties in 

 Missouri. I should suggest that the seed may be pro- 

 cured through the agents of express-companies at Glasgow, 

 Brunswick, and Renick for the Orinoco, and at Louisiana 

 or Fulton for the other qualities. I would recommend 

 the culture of the coarser, heavier kinds, for the reason 

 that the finer quality needs much more care and experi- 

 ence in the handling, in order that it may go into market 

 in a condition to command such a price as its quality, 

 when well handled, entitles it to." 



In the words of Libhart, a Pennsylvanian farmer, the 

 " best variety for cultivation in a high northern latitude 

 is the Connecticut seed-leaf, as it ripens two weeks earlier 



