GROWING TOBACCO UNDER ARTIFICIAL SHADE 471 



A rotation that is followed in the dark tobacco district of Ten- 

 nessee and Kentucky when clover will succeed is: (1) Tobacco, 

 (2) wheat, (3) red clover. In the White Burley district of Ken- 

 tucky, as already stated, the^tobacco is put on new land, in a pasture 

 that has never been broken or in one that has lain in sod for from 

 ten to twenty years. When a good piece of land is put in tobacco it 

 may be sown to rye to turn under in the spring, and tobacco may 

 be planted a second time. After this wheat or rye is usually sown 

 and the land is put back in grass. Other growers raise one crop 

 of tobacco on blue-grass sod and then sow rye and blue-grasses and 

 let the land run in sod then for a term of years. 



Kotation is not followed systematically in Wisconsin. The sta- 



FIG. 199. Cheesecloth shade for growing fine wrapper tobacco. (Davis's "Productive 



Farming.") 



tion recommends that tobacco be grown three years in succession on 

 a field and then that it be run in corn, barley, and clover for 

 three years and then go back to tobacco. Another recommendation is 

 that it run in tobacco four years and then run in corn, barley, clover, 

 clover and grass, and then back in tobacco. 



A rather common rotation where rotation is practised in Ohio 

 is: Tobacco, wheat, grass. This is sometimes made a four-year 

 rotation by following grass with corn and corn with tobacco. 



Growing Tobacco Under Artificial Shade. Some cigar wrap- 

 per tobacco is grown under artificial shade in Connecticut, Massachu- 

 setts, and Florida. Tents of cheesecloth are erected over the land 

 on which the tobacco is grown (Fig. 199) . Leaf of the finest quality 



