THE KENTUCKY PLANTER. 3383 
by any Southern tobacco. The system of cultivation is simi- 
lar to that pursued by the Virginian, and the same process of 
curing is also adopted. 
The Kentucky growers generally succeed in getting a 
“good stand” and when once the plants have commenced 
to grow they come forward with a rapidity that is truly aston- 
ishing. The soil of Kentucky is well adapted for the pro- 
duction of the largest varieties of tobacco as well as the 
finest grades of cutting leaf. Much attention is paid to the 
selection of soil, that the light standard of Kentucky leaf 
may be further advanced. On the large plantations a vast 
amount of tobacco is grown, in some instances equaling the 
entire product of some of the tobacco-growing towns in the 
Connecticut Valley. The tobacco is packed in hogsheads, 
each one containing twelve hundred pounds, the same as in 
Virginia and Missouri. 
The Kentucky planter prides himself on the superior 
quality of tobacco, as well as his famous blooded stock. If 
there is anything more remarkable than the high character 
of the latter, it must certainly be the renowned plant which 
has given the wealthy planters of Kentucky a national popu- 
larity among all cultivators of tobacco. The Kentuckians are 
thorough in all of their methods of cultivation, and with the 
first stock and tobacco farms in the country bid fair to achieve 
still further honors as ‘tillers of the soil.” Possessed of 
the largest means, they have brought their farms up toa high 
state of cultivation, and produce in their famous valleys the 
very finest of Nature’s products. 
Kentucky planters are men of the largest endowments ; 
Nature, in her gifts to them has been most lavish, and the 
princely fortunes which they have acquired shows how well 
they have benefited by her munificence. Inmanners affable, 
and in benevolence unsurpassed, the Kentucky planter gains 
the plaudits of all. He is polite to both friend and foe, and 
possessed with all of that polished manner which marks the 
true gentleman, and especially all growers of the “ kingly 
plant.” Easy of approach, he has still that reserve that bids 
