CHAPTER X. 
TOBACCO PLANTERS AND PLANTATIONS, 
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‘: (l ks grounds selected for the cultivation of tobacco 
Mii, are called by various names even in the same coun- 
yas tries. Thus in the Connecticut Valley, such lands 
* are called tobacco fields, at the South they are known 
as tobacco plantations,while in Cuba they are called Vegas 
or tobacco farms. In Cuba almost the entire tobacco farm 
is planted to tobacco while at the South and in New Eng- 
land this is rarely the case unless the plantations or tobacco 
farms are small and contain but afew acres. In the Connect- 
icut Valley and more especially along the banks of the 
Connecticut River, where the farms are frequently small, 
this is sometimes the case but farther removed from the 
river, where the farms are much larger but a few acres of the 
best land is used for this purpose. 
In the Connecticut Valley the tobacco fields average from 
one to forty acres, rarely exceeding the latter and indeed 
seldom including as large an area. The average size of 
tobacco fields is about five acres—sometimes all in one lot 
but oftener divided into several small pieces on various parts 
of the farm. 
The Connecticut planter is deeply interested in the plant 
and gives it his undivided attention from seed-sowing until 
it is sold to the speculator or manufacturer. All other crops 
in his opinion are of but little importance compared with the 
great New England product, one crop is frequently not off 
his hands before he is preparing for another. The Connecti- 
cut planter stands first in the rank of tobacco growers; he is 
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