fiO TOBACCO GROWING IN GREAT BRITAIN. 



having taken into account the different crops 

 which are taken afterwards without extra 

 manure, as I told you before. 



Only it requires a starting capital of from 

 500 to 700 francs per hectare for setting up the 

 shelters, which consist of thatched open sheds, 

 and for pine rods, which however last for up- 

 wards of twenty years. 



The cultivation is principally carried on by 

 small householders, whose whole families are 

 thus occupied, but I have good reason for be- 

 lieving that, if carried on on a large scale, the 

 expenses would be greatly reduced, and espe- 

 cially in manure, which the small cultivators 

 cannot use in sufficient quantities to enable 

 them to procure it at wholesale prices. 



The industry has, up to the present time, 

 made the fortune of Blandain (frontier town), 

 and has enabled it proudly to tide over the 

 agricultural crisis ; and I am persuaded that it 

 will go on increasing if we have the good sense 

 to become a little better acquainted with the 

 science, of which our planters are still very 

 ignorant. 



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