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on the coasts of Southern and Central California. He 

 states that perhaps of all the remains of extinct races so 

 richly furnished by that region, none were so common as 

 the pipes, usually made of stone resembling serpentine. 

 The tobacco of N. develandii Professor Eothrock found by 

 experience to be excessively strong. 



A recent report of the Commissioner of Agriculture 

 contains a few pages of sound advice to American planters 

 on the management of this crop, which is worthy of 

 reproduction here. 



" The principal points to be attended to if the best 

 results are to be attained may be stated in a few para- 

 graphs — paragraphs which, while referring mainly to 

 shipping, manufacturing, and smoking tobacco as consti- 

 tuting nine-tenths of the tobacco grown in the United 

 States, embody principles and prescribe modes of manage- 

 ment nearly identical with those to be considered in the 

 treatment of other tobaccos. 



" I. Select good land for the crop ; plough and subsoil it 

 in autumn to get the multiplied benefits of winter's freezes. 

 This cannot be too strongly urged, 



" II. Have early and vigorous plants and plenty of them. 

 It were better to have 100,000 too many than 10,000 too 

 few. They are the comer-stone of the building. To 

 make sure of them give personal attention to the selection 

 and preparation of the plant-bed and to the care of the 

 young plants in the means necessary to hasten their 

 growth, and to protect them from the dreaded fly. 



" III. Collect manure in season and out of season, and 

 from every available source — from the fence corners, the 

 ditch-banks, the urinal, the ash-pile. Distribute it with 



