338 TOBACCO IN LOUISIANA. 
for market, one of which consisted in taking up the twisted 
lumps (after remaining in press for six months), spreading 
them to fifteen or sixteen inches in length and having com- 
pleted four pounds in weight, rolling it into a lump which 
retained its shape by means of a rope one-fourth inch in 
diameter, tightly twisted around it. The labor in pressing 
and twisting is entirely done by hand, and attended to with 
the most scrupulous care. 
The Creole planters sometimes raise two, and even three 
crops on the same field, two of them being the growths of 
/ LOUISIANA TOBACCO PLANTATION, 
suckers’ or shoots from the parent stock or stump. The 
growers of Perique tobacco have tested Havana seed, but can 
see but little difference between the product and that from 
Virginia or Kentucky tobacco seed, while the growth is much 
smaller. In color Louisiana tobacco is very dark, entirely 
different from any other variety grown in the Mississippi 
‘ valley. 
Some few years since tobacco culture was introduced into 
California, and the belief then entertained::by those who 
planted the consoling weed, that the state would:soon become 
‘a8 ‘famous for raising tobacco as she now is for producing 
