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when the buds are ready to be pinched off; the leaves 
increase in size until August and September, when they have 
attained their growth.” In Turkey “when the young plants 
are about six inches in height they are removed from the 
small beds and planted in fields like cabbages in this country, 
and are then left to nature to develop them to a height of 
from three to four feet; three leaves, however, are removed 
from each plant to assist its growth.” 
A year or two since, a machine was invented and offered 
to the growers of the Connecticut valley, called a transplanter, 
of which we here 2 
give an engraving. 
The inventor claimed 
that the “ American 
Transplanter” could 
do the work of several 
well. It rolls along 
the ridge something ¥ 
like a wheelbarrow, 
marking the hills “4% ae 
with a sharp joint in AMERICAN TRANSPLANTER. 
the wheel and setting 
the plants as they are dropped into the receptacles at the top. 
The tobacco plant, like most of the vegetable products, 
has many and varied foes. Not only is it most easily affected 
and damaged by wind and hail, but it seems to be the espe- 
cial favorite of the insect world, who, like man, love the taste 
of the plant. The first of them “puts in an appearance” 
immediately after transplanting, which necessitates the per- 
formance of what is known to all growers of the plant as 
WORMING. 
There are two kinds of worms that prey upon the plants; 
viz: the “cut worm” * and the green or “horn worm.” The 
* Hughes, in his History of Barbadoes, says that the common people call the worm kitifonia. 
