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can ,be clone with little difficulty, but in this region the nature of the 

 soil would be a serious handicap in such a practice and would put 

 the district at an economic disadvantage if it were not that it is so 

 well adapted to a crop like bluegrass (which loosens up a heavy clay 

 soil) and to an intensive crop like tobacco, which yields a compara- 

 tively large income per acre. 



The hilly, less productive, and cheaper lands can be organized 

 more profitably as distinctly stock farms, with little or no tobacco. 

 As a rule, however, the farmer must raise some tobacco to meet the 

 requirements of labor. 



The farmer who can command but a small area of land should, in 

 order to make his farm most profitable, specialize in tobacco or, 

 where market conditions permit, in dairying. On farms of from 

 260 to 360 acres in size the best results can be obtained by organizing 

 on the basis of the stock-with-tobacco type, which emphasizes live 

 stock but cultivates an area in tobacco large enough to utilize labor 

 resources to advantage and to secure the advantage of diversity. 



WASHINGTON : GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1917 



