Kentucky and Tennessee. In Massachusetts 
and Connecticut the cost for fertilizer per farm 
is $227 as against $17 and $4 respectively in 
Tennessee and Kentucky. Moreover, ‘the 
Northern farms are smaller than the Southern. 
Varieties or TOBACCO RAISED 
The varieties of tobacco raised are mainly of 
the native American species; but in some states 
(in Florida particularly) plants are raised from 
imported Cuban afid Sumatran seed, in an en- 
deavor to produce cigar leaf equal in quality to 
the leaf now imported from these places which 
commands a high price in the trade. The rais- 
ing of cigar leaf tobacco from foreign seed 
began in Florida about 1902; and, although on 
the whole, the cultivation has been very success- 
ful, yet it cannot be said that the hoped for 
results have been fully realized. It was claimed 
for the Florida grown Sumatran leaf that in 
many ways it surpassed the native Sumatran 
leaf. Certainly the experimental samples of 
this Florida leaf exhibited by the U. S. at the 
Paris Exposition of 1900 were judged to be 
superior both in appearance and style and other 
matters. However, this superiority does not 
appear to have been upheld, for in the trade . 
the native grown Sumatran leaf still holds its 
rank. 
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