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Cost of raising tobacco 189-191 



Prices of tobacco - 191 



West Tennessee district - 191 



Clarksville district 191 



Upper Cumberland River district 191 



Total tobacco production, acreage, yield, and vahio 192 



Experiments with Cuban tobacco 192 



CHAPTER XVI. CULTURE AND CURING OF TOBACCO IN VIRGINIA. 



A short history of the types of tobacco produced in Virginia and Maryland 192-194 



Quality of tobacco in Virginia 194 



Climat 195 



Storms - 196 



Virginia soils 196 



Surface rocks of the tobacco region 196,197 



Condition of tobacco soils 197 



Varieties of tobacco 198 



Middle division 198 



Tiedmont division 198,199 



Blue Ridge division - 199 



Valley and Appalachia division 199 



Cross-fertilization 199 



Influences of soils upon the quality of the tobacco product 199,200 



Present quality of Virginia tobacco 200 



Proportional acreage in tobacco '. 200,201 



The use of fertilizers: How applied quantity and cost per acre 201,202 



Deterioration of tobacco soils 203 



Preparation of land for tobacco 202-,203 



Seed-beds 203,204 



Cultivation of tobacco 204 



Topping, priming, and suckering of tobacco 204 



Cutting, hanging, and housing of tobacco 205,206 



Tobacco-houses 206 



Tobacco curing 206,207 



Losses by fire and rates of insurance of tobacco-barns 207,208 



Pole-sweat 208 



Management of cured tobacco before stripping 208 



Management of stripped tobacco 208,209 



Best season for prizing tobacco 209 



Preparation of tobacco for market 209, 210 



Loose tobacco how sold 21* 



Prized tobacco how sold 210,211 



Tobacco strips - 211 



Diseases of tobacco and insect enemies . -, 211 



Cost of raising and marketing tobacco 211,212 



A succinct account of tobacco in Virginia, historical, agricultural, and statistical, H507-1790, with some mention incidentally of 



its history in Maryland, prepared for the Tenth Census of the United States, by R. A. Brock 212-22E 



CHAPTKB XVII. CULTURE AND CURING OF TOBACCO IN WEST VIRGINIA. 



Quality of tobacco i 225,226 



Geology and soils 22C 



Climate 226,227 



Varieties of tobacco 227 



The use of fertilizers and preservation of tobacco soils , 227,228 



Seed-beds 228 



Preparation of tobacco land and cultivation 2ii8 



Topping and priming tobacco 228 



Cutting, housing, and curing of tobacco 228,229 



Diseases of tobacco 229 



Cost of raising tobacco, etc 229 



Insect enemies of tobacco * 229 



CHAPTER XVIII. CULTURE AND CURING OF TOBACCO IN WISCONSIN. 



Timber 230 



Climate 2:10 



History of tobacco culture in Wisconsin 231 



The tobaceo district of Wisconsin 231,232 



Soils for tobacco 232 



Grades of tobacco product - 232,233 



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