HOW TO IMPROVE THE TOBACCO 

 CROP OF INDIA. 



India stands second among the tobacco-growing 

 countries of the world as regards the quantity of the crop 

 produced, the first in order of production being the United 

 States of America. From this fact can be realised the 

 great importance of tobacco in the agriculture of this 

 country. 



The writer, in order to study tobacco in its various 

 phases of agriculture and manufacture, spent a few years 

 in some of the principal tobacco-growing countries, as the 

 United States, Turkey, and Cuba ; and visited some to- 

 bacco factories in those places, besides a few in England, 

 France, and Egypt. In this short paper will be dealt 

 with, as far as space permits, some of the broad principles 

 which have been followed with success in the improve- 

 ment of the tobacco crop in those countries, especially 

 the United States, and which are worth trying in India. 



The tobacco industry has become highly specia- 

 lised ; and each kind of tobacco, whether grown for the 

 manufacture of cigars or cigarettes, for smoking in pipes 

 or for chewing purposes, needs special treatment regard- 

 ing culture, curing, and preparation for the market 

 before manufacture ; and requires different climatic con- 

 ditions, soils, manures, and fertilizers to develop the 

 respective properties in accordance with the respective 



