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the trees about a yard from the ground, lest they should 
shoot again. What wood they have occasion for they carry 
off, and burn the rest, or let it lie and rot upon the ground. 
The land between the logs and stumps they hoe up, planting 
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tobacco there in the spring, inclosing it with a slight fence of 
cleft rails. This will last for tobacco some years, if the land 
be good; as it is where fine timber, or grape vines grow. 
Land when hired is forced to bear tobacco by penning their 
cattle upon it; but cowpen tobacco tastes strong, and that 
planted in wet marshy land is called nonburning tobacco, 
which smoaks in the pipe like leather, unless it be of a good 
e. When land is tired of tobacco, it will bear Indian Corn 
or English Wheat, or any other European grain or seed with 
wonderful increase. 
“Tobacco and Indian Corne are planted in hills as hops, 
and secured by worm fences, which are made of rails sup- 
orting one another very firmly in a particular manner. 
obacco requires a great deal of skill and trouble in the right 
management of it. They raise the plants in beds, as we do 
Cabbage plants; which they transplant and replant upon 
oceasion after a shower of rain, which they call a season. 
When it is grown up they top it, or nip off the head, suecour 
