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INDEX. 



Production of tobacco in New Zea- 

 land, 177 



Nicaragua, 177 



Paraguay, 178 



Persia, 178-91 



Philippines, 191 



Eoumania, 192 



Russia, 192 



San Salvador, 192 



Servia, 192 



Spain, 192 



Sumatra, 193-205 



Turkey, 205-10 



United States, 210-22 



Venezuela, 222 



West Indies, 223-30 



Properties of tobacco, 253-66 



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UALiTiES of tobacco, 109-21 

 Quantity of manure for tobacco, 



12 

 Quicklime for tobacco soil, 24 

 Quincunx planting, 52 



JtlATE of growth of tobacco, 24 

 Removing superfluous leaves, 62, 



65 

 Resweating apparatus, 249 

 Ridging land, 49 

 Ripeness, influence on tobacco, 61 



of tobacco, judging, 70 



Ripening, 61 



River bottoms for tobacco growing, 



10 

 Roll tobacco, 236-44 

 Rotation for tobacco soils, 29-31 

 Roumanian tobacco, 192 

 Russian tobacco, 192 



Oaltpetkb as tobacco manure, 

 13 



Salts added to snufi", 264 



in tobacco, 259 



Sandv bottoms for tobacco grow- 

 ing', 9 



San Salvador tobacco, 192 



Saving seed, 37 



Scaffolding for tobacco, 75 



Seed, 37 



46 



is, 38-48 

 -, area of, 39 

 -,preparing,38,41,43,44 

 -, protecting from fowls, 



, frost, 43, 47 



, shade frames for, 48 



, shelter for, 38 



, situation for, 38 



, soil for, 38 



, time for sowing, 41 



Seedlings, hot-bed for, 44 



, planting out, 50-4 



, thinning out, 40, 48 



, top-dressing, 41 



, watering, 40 



, weeding, 40, 46 



Seed required for an acre, 39 



, sowing, 39, 45 



Servian tobacco, 192 

 Setting out plants, 50-4 

 Shade frames for seed-beds, 48 

 Sheds for holding tobacco as 



gathered, 68 

 Shelter for nurseries, 38 

 Sheltering tobacco from wind, 10 



lands with corn, 65 



Shiraz tobacco, 3 

 Signs of ripening, 72 

 Situation for nurseries, 38 



plantations, 10 



Sizes of tobacco bams, 90 

 Snuff-, 248, 263 



tobacco, 61 



Soil for nurseries, 38 



plantations, 8-10 



Sorting tobacco, 109-21 



for use, 232 



Sort of tobacco to grow, 31-7 

 Sorts of tobacco grown in 



America, 33-7 

 Sowing seed, 39, 45 

 Spanish tobacco, 37, 192 

 Spearing tobacco, 72 

 Species of tobacco, 1-3 

 Splitting tobacco, 72 

 Sponging the leaves, 119 

 Stacking gathered tobacco leaves, 



67 

 Straw mat for keeping frost off, 47 



