This "yellow tobacco belt" extends from the 

 coast across to the North Carolina Mountains, 

 through Tennessee and South Carolina, South- 

 ern Virginia, Southern Ohio, a few parts of 

 Kentucky, some of Eastern Missouri and Ar- 

 kansas. The best soils are those which are of 

 a light sandy or sandy clay nature and they 

 need not be deep or rich. In this region the 

 very finest pipe-smoking tobaccos are raised. 

 Whilst the U. S. has not been able to produce a 

 cigar wrapper tobacco equal in quality to the 

 Cuban or Sumatran, in pipe-smoking and cigar- 

 ette tobaccos she stands without a rival. 



There are about 100 different varieties of 

 tobacco grown in the U. S., many of these being 

 approximately the same and are synonymous. 

 Subvarieties are easily obtained by crossing. 

 Cross-fertilization easily takes place where dif- 

 ferent strains are produced in the same locality. 

 On this account when it is desired to keep a 

 variety pure, care must be exerted to see that 

 seed is collected from pure strains. On the 

 other hand, the ease of producing new varieties 

 gives opportunity to the various State Agri- 

 cultural Experimental Stations to try out new 

 strains for desirable qualities. The enumera- 

 tion of the differences between the various varie- 

 ties would be tiresome for the reader, yet it will be 

 well for the user of tobacco to know some of these 

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