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tobaccos are produced in the states of Connecticut and Wisconsin; while 

 filler leaf of the various types comes from the Miami Valley of- Ohio, 

 and from Pennsylvania, Florida, Texas, Georgia and Connecticut. 



The manufacturing tobaccos, air, sun, flue and fire-cured, are grown in 

 Kentucky, Ohio, Virginia, Tennessee and North and South Carolina. 

 Maryland also produces a fine grade of pipe tobacco, but most of this 

 tobacco is exported to England and France. Nearly all of the fire-cured 



Field of Virginia Heavy Tobacco. 



tobaccos produced in the above states are exported to the various parts 

 of the world. 



Tobacco Soils. — It might be well to mention briefly a few of the prin- 

 cipal soils upon which tobacco is grown. The heavy tobaccos of Virginia 

 are grown in the Piedmont District on soil known as the Cecil clay or Cecil 

 clay loam. This soil is a heavy, red clay soil and produces a heavy-bodied 

 dark-colored tobacco. This type of soil is also found in the tobacco dis- 

 tricts of Tennessee and" part of Kentucky. The soil of the Carolinas is 

 a very light-gray, sandy soil and belongs to the Norfolk series of soils as 

 classified by the U. S. Bureau of Soils. This soil produces a light-colored, 

 thin-textured leaf which is used in the manufacture of cigarettes and 

 granulated tobaccos. The soil upon which the burly tobacco is grown is 

 also a light soil, as is also the tobacco soil of Maryland. The tobacco soil 



