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larger and heavier, but their effect on the character of the 
‘leaf is injurious, the salts destroying its fine qualities, so that 
it sweats and cures poorly, and compared with the finest leaf 
burns dark and emits a rank and unpleasant odor. 
The Connecticut tobacco grower requires considerable 
capital when engaged extensively in the business, as ordinarily 
he buys large quantities of fertilizers and requires many 
hands to cultivate the crop. On the largest tobacco farms 
the sheds or “ hanging houses” are built near or in the field, 
and are sometimes very large, say two or three hundred feet 
in length, and capable of holding the crop of from five to ten 
acres. a 
His broad fields of the weed can usually be seen from his 
house and he loves to show to visitors the plants growing in 
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all their Iuxuriance, or to sit on his piazza and call attention 
to their waving leaves and graceful showy tops. Few 
tobacco-growers can discuss the relative merits of the num- 
érous varieties like the Connecticut planter, and he is well 
