40 TOBACCO GEOWING IN GREAT BRITAIN. 



twenty localities in which to grow these ex- 

 perimental potatoes, selecting them in the dis- 

 tricts where potatoes are extensively cultivated. 



The hearty co-operation of the 



following gentlemen, practically interested in 

 the culture of the potato in these various dis- 

 tricts, was obtained;" Here follows a list of the 

 gentlemen who undertook to grow a hundred- 

 weight of each kind of competing potato. The 

 growers were giveii full instructions how to act, 

 and were required to furnish full particulars 

 as to soil, position, drainage, amount gi'own, 

 manures, etc. Mr. Carruthers himself undertook 

 to inspect the plots while the potatoes were 

 growing, and he, with the further assistance of 

 five gentlemen, visited the localities, superin- 

 tended the raising of the crops, etc., and 

 subsequently published his Report, which was 

 based on the information furnished by the 

 growers and on his own careful observations. 



Such a system employed on behalf of tobacco 

 would ensure success without the waste of time, 

 money, and land, to which independent and 

 totally ignorant growers would be liable. 



A rich, loamy, and rather loose or sandy soil 

 is the best adapted for the tobacco plant ; but, 

 wherever potatoes or turnips flourish, tobacco 



