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become still finer as a leaf tobacco, for wrapping cigars 
But it is in the production of cutting leaf that the Ohio 
growers take rank, and ere long will supply the vast demand 
made upon them for their great cutting variety. 
With a degree of pride peculiar to all tobacco growers 
(when any new variety has originated,) they point with m6 
little egotism to their fields of “ white tobacco,” and ask their 
fellow-growers of New England to rival this “great plant.” 
So successful have they been of late with cutting leaf, that 
their fields yield them returns not inferior to many of the 
choicest tobacco farms on the Connecticut River. The Ohio 
growers have one advantage over earlier growers of the plant 
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OHIO TOBACCO FIELD. 
—their land has not been cultivated as long as the famous 
tobacco lands of the Connecticut valley, and does not require 
that thorough fertilizing which is so necessary in New Eng- 
land. Still the tobacco field cannot be too thoroughly pre- 
pared for the growth of tobacco, whether in the tropics or in 
the more temperate regions. 
In the curing of tobacco, the Ohio growers have but few 
equals, and no superiors. At first, the complaint made by 
the buyers of Ohio tobacco was, that “ Ohio tobacco has the 
