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THE CVLTVRE OF TOBACCO. 



to the production of disagreeable odours and flavours iu the tobacco 

 when thev are used as fertilizers. 



In the production of tobacco there may be localities where it will 

 pay better to give attention to the production of quantity rather thaa 

 quality, and in such places large quantities of stable manure and 

 nitrogenous manures may be used and no attention given to im- 

 purities. 



VNATER IN ITS RELATION TO THE TOBACCO 

 CROPS. 



Upon the percentage of water in the soils depend largely the- 

 colour and texture of the leaf. The value of many tobacco soils is not 

 based so largely on their fertility as it is on the soil's ability to hold 

 greater or less proportions of moisture, to drain off rapidly the surplus 

 water in times of plenty, and, by capillary action, to draw up water 

 frcjm below in times of drought. The Bright tobacco lands and the 

 cigar leaf lands of Florida have but little fertility, and are only used 

 because of their moisture content and the waimth that is due to that 

 moisture content. It has been determined that soils holding about 

 ten per cent, of moisture are adapted to the production of wrapper 

 leaves, while soils with a higher water content, as 20 per cent., are 

 '■nly adapted to the production of heavy tobacco and fillers. 



