8382 KENTUCKY TOBACCO-GROWING. 
have a claim on the crop for advances made on the same. 
Having given a description of the Connecticut, Virginia 
and Ohio tobacco growers, we come now to the most exten- 
tensive cultivators of tobacco in America—the Kentuckians. 
With the exception of the Virginians they are the oldest 
growers of the plant in the United States,* and are confess- 
edly among the most thorough cultivators of the plant in the 
world. The soil of Kentucky is admirably adapted for the 
great staple, and along the banks of the Green River may be 
seen the largest tobacco fields in the world. The plant 
attains a large size, and grows with a luxuriance common to 
all products grown in the famous “blue grass” region. 
The system adopted by the Kentucky growers is similar 
to that adopted by all growers of cut tobacco, and the fine 
quality of Kentucky “selections” has deservedly gained the 
leaf a reputation that must place it in the front rank of 
American tobacco. The vast quantity grown in the state is 
an evidence not only of the good quality of Kentucky 
tobacco, but of the adaptation of the soil and of the method 
KENTUCKY TOBACCO PLANTATION, 
of cultivation in use. As a cut tobacco, Kentucky-leaf is 
held in the highest esteem, the exportation of the leaf to all 
parts of Europe gaining for it a reputation hardly equaled 
*Kentucky was originally a part of Virginia. 
