Kentucky and Tennessee. In Massachusetts 

 and Connecticut the cost for fertilizer per farm 

 is $227 as against $17 and $4 respectively in 

 Tennessee and Kentucky. Moreover, the 

 Northern farms are smaller than the Southern. 



VARIETIES or TOBACCO RAISED 



The varieties of tobacco raised are mainly of 

 the native American species ; but in some states 

 (in Florida particularly) plants are raised from 

 imported Cuban and Sumatran seed, in an en- 

 deavor to produce cigar leaf equal in quality to 

 the leaf now imported from these places which 

 commands a high price in the trade. The rais- 

 ing of cigar leaf tobacco from foreign seed 

 began in Florida about 1902 ; and, although on 

 the whole, the cultivation has been very success- 

 ful, yet it cannot be said that the hoped for 

 results have been fully realized. It was claimed 

 for the Florida grown Sumatran leaf that in 

 many ways it surpassed the native Sumatran 

 leaf. Certainly the experimental samples of 

 this Florida leaf exhibited by the U. S. at the 

 Paris Exposition of 1900 were judged to be 

 superior both in appearance and style and other 

 matters. However, this superiority does not 

 appear to have been upheld, for in the trade 

 the native grown Sumatran leaf still holds its 

 rank. 



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