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  History 
  of 
  DuRHA^f. 
  

  

  their 
  methods 
  to 
  all 
  inquirers, 
  and 
  it 
  was 
  soon 
  found 
  that 
  

   soil 
  was 
  the 
  chief 
  element, 
  although 
  care 
  in 
  the 
  modes 
  of 
  

   cultivation 
  and 
  curing 
  was 
  also 
  found 
  to 
  be 
  necessary 
  to 
  the 
  

   production 
  of 
  the 
  best 
  qualities. 
  From 
  the 
  plantation 
  of 
  

   the 
  Slades, 
  its 
  growth 
  extended 
  over 
  Caswell 
  count}', 
  and 
  

   along 
  the 
  same 
  ridge 
  into 
  Pittsylvania 
  county, 
  Virginia. 
  

   This 
  covered 
  almost 
  the 
  entire 
  area 
  of 
  yellow-tobacco 
  cul- 
  

   ture 
  before 
  the 
  civil 
  war, 
  when 
  the 
  production 
  of 
  tobacco 
  

   was 
  almost 
  entirely 
  suspended. 
  The 
  war 
  increased 
  the 
  man- 
  

   ufacture 
  of 
  tobacco 
  in 
  the 
  North, 
  where 
  no 
  tobacco 
  suitable 
  

   for 
  plug 
  or 
  wrappers 
  was 
  grown, 
  and 
  at 
  its 
  close 
  attention 
  

   was 
  called 
  to 
  the 
  fitness 
  of 
  the 
  North 
  Carolina 
  yellow 
  leaf 
  

   for 
  this 
  purpose- 
  The 
  price 
  rose 
  with 
  the 
  demand, 
  and 
  the 
  

   production 
  extended 
  to 
  other 
  counties, 
  especially 
  to 
  Person, 
  

   Granville 
  and 
  Rockingham. 
  Granville 
  outstrips 
  all 
  com- 
  

   petitors, 
  although 
  many 
  other 
  counties 
  have 
  entered 
  the 
  

   lists, 
  from 
  Buncombe 
  and 
  Madison, 
  in 
  the 
  west, 
  where 
  it 
  is 
  

   grown 
  on 
  the 
  slope 
  of 
  the 
  Alleghanies, 
  3,000 
  feet 
  above 
  sea- 
  

   level, 
  to 
  the 
  coast 
  belt 
  about 
  Goldsboro', 
  200 
  feet 
  above 
  the 
  

   sea 
  — 
  a 
  vertical 
  range 
  of 
  2,800 
  feet, 
  and 
  a 
  climatic 
  range 
  

   equivalent 
  to 
  about 
  eight 
  and 
  a 
  half 
  degrees 
  of 
  latitude. 
  

   While 
  yellow 
  leaf 
  may 
  have 
  been 
  raised 
  in 
  Virginia 
  in 
  small 
  

   quantities, 
  this 
  may 
  be 
  taken 
  as 
  an 
  accurate 
  sketch 
  of 
  the 
  

   origin 
  and 
  spread 
  of 
  the 
  new 
  product 
  in 
  North 
  Carolina 
  and 
  

   in 
  the 
  contiguous 
  counties 
  of 
  Virginia. 
  

  

  After 
  the 
  war 
  the 
  cheap 
  and 
  abundant 
  production 
  of 
  

   shipping 
  tobacco 
  in 
  the 
  West 
  and 
  the 
  reduction 
  of 
  the 
  price 
  

   below 
  the 
  cost 
  of 
  production 
  in 
  North 
  Carolina 
  militated, 
  

   with 
  the 
  demand 
  for 
  fine 
  tobacco, 
  to 
  diminish 
  the 
  growth 
  of 
  

   the 
  heavy 
  tobacco 
  and 
  to 
  extend 
  widel}' 
  the 
  production 
  of 
  

   fancy 
  leaf, 
  which 
  reaches 
  its 
  highest 
  perfection 
  in 
  the 
  cen- 
  

   tral 
  belt, 
  of 
  which 
  the 
  city 
  of 
  Durham 
  is 
  the 
  main 
  outlet. 
  

  

  There 
  are, 
  broadly 
  and 
  generally 
  stated, 
  two 
  varieties 
  of 
  

   soil 
  in 
  North 
  Carolina: 
  a 
  gray, 
  sandy, 
  light 
  soil, 
  with 
  a 
  yel- 
  

   low, 
  sandy-clay 
  subsoil, 
  suited 
  to 
  yellow 
  leaf 
  and 
  the 
  various 
  

   types 
  of 
  fine 
  tobacco, 
  and 
  a 
  dark 
  loam, 
  a 
  rich, 
  unctuous, 
  

   heavy 
  soil, 
  with 
  a 
  red 
  clay 
  subsoil, 
  suited 
  especially 
  to 
  the 
  

   cereals 
  and 
  to 
  a 
  heavy 
  dark 
  or 
  red 
  tobacco. 
  The 
  change 
  in 
  

   the 
  growth 
  of 
  tobacco 
  has 
  been 
  from 
  one 
  of 
  these 
  to 
  the 
  

   other. 
  Shipping 
  leaf 
  is 
  still 
  grown, 
  however, 
  both 
  as 
  an 
  in- 
  

   dustry, 
  upon 
  soil 
  selected 
  for 
  it, 
  and 
  as 
  an 
  incident 
  to 
  at- 
  

   tempts 
  to 
  raise 
  fine 
  tobacco 
  upon 
  lands 
  not 
  suited 
  to 
  its 
  

   iproduction. 
  Sometimes 
  a 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  field 
  will 
  offer 
  

  

  i 
  

  

  