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cover crops are grown or even where clover is to be plowed under 

 it may be best to let this stand until within a month or less oti 

 planting time to make more vegetable matter. However, when 

 this is done the crop should be thoroughly disked before plowing, 

 to hasten the decay of the green crop. The land should be thor- 

 oughly harrowed, disked, and rolled to make a fine and firm 

 seedbed. 



Distances of Planting. The spacing of plants varies with the 

 type of tobacco and the character of soil. The Connecticut Havana 

 seed tobacco is grown in rows about three feet three inches or three 

 feet six inches apart and fourteen to twenty inches in the row. 

 The Connecticut broad-leaf is spaced twenty to twenty-four inches 

 in rows somewhat wider than the Havana seed. The Wisconsin 

 tobacco is grown in rows thirty-four to thirty-eight inches apart and 

 is spaced in the rows eighteen to twenty-four inches. The Cuban 

 variety is grown in rows three to three and one-half feet apart and 

 is spaced fourteen inches in the row. The Pennsylvania broad-leaf 

 is grown in rows three to four feet apart and is spaced in the rows 

 eighteen to thirty inches. The Miami Valley tobacco is grown in 

 rows thirty-four to thirty-six inches apart and is spaced twenty-two 

 to twenty-eight inches in the row. The dark tobacco is usually 

 grown in checks, the plants being about three and one-half feet apart 

 each way. White Burley is grown in rows three and one-half feet 

 apart and is spaced in the rows eighteen to twenty-four inches. Flue- 

 cured tobacco is grown in rows three and one-half to four feet apart 

 and is spaced in the row two to three feet apart. Maryland tobacco 

 is grown in checks thirty-two to thirty-six inches apart each way. 



Transplanting to the Field. Machine planting is becoming 

 more common. When the acreage justifies, the machine proves a 

 good investment. It takes a driver and two persons to set the 

 plants. It automatically waters and the skilled setter places the 

 plant so as to get most benefit from this. 



When hand setting is employed the rows are marked off, and then 

 the places are usually marked in some way for the plants. A buggy 

 wheel with the rim removed and the spoke spaces right may be run 

 down the row to mark places for plants. When the tobacco is 

 placed in checks, cross-rows have to be marked to indicate where the 



