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well adapted for the ‘cultivation of tobacco—the soil, cliniate, 
and-improved methods. of culture all tend to the production 
of a leaf tobacco as celebrated as it is valuable. woe 
“Between the ‘Lower Valley,’ in the Nicotian, not the 
KILLING BUGS BY NIGHT. 
geographical, sense of these words, lie the so-called Partidos 
which produce the tobacco that is sent to Europe as Partido 
or Cabafias. The leaf often surpasses that of the ‘Lower 
Valley’ in size and fineness, as well as in the beauty of the 
color; but it is inferior in quality. The tobacco farmers 
though stalwart fellows are not fond of work, and too often 
waste their time at the tavern. Many of them from thrift- 
lessness are plunged into debt; and scarcely is the harvest 
ended when they borrow money from the tobacco merchant 
on the following harvest, who thereby obtains the right to 
interfere, it may be despotically, with the managenient of 
the crop. Continual embarrassments tempt the tobacco 
planters to be dishonest. To cheat their creditors, they often 
sell the best part of the crop in underhand fashion. . Such of 
the tobacco farmers as wish to produce a great deal of tobacco, 
without regard to the excellence of the article, leave the 
plant to its natural growth, which is both scientifically and 
otherwise objectionable, for it is on a process of thinning and 
pruning a due diffusion of sap in the leaves depends, and 
consequently the quality of the tobacco.” 
