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at once sent an inspector, one of our experienced men, to visit the soil- 
survey party that was then going on in South Carolina, and in Perry 
County, Ala., and in Gadsden County, Fla., and in eastern Texas, and 
he identified those soils from my conception of the conditions as 
explained to me by the reports received as identically the same soils. 
Mr. Henry. Mr. Whitney, do I understand you to say that the 
Gadsden County soil is the Orangeburg sandy loam? 
Mr. Wuitnry. They have the same soil. 
Mr. Henry. You designate the Gadsden County soil as Orangeburg 
sandy loam? 
Mr. Wuirnry. As Orangeburg sandy loam and Orangeburg clay. 
Mr. Henry. You find them both in Orange County, do you? 
Mr. Wuarrnry. We find them both in Gadsden County, and it is on 
the Orangeburg clay that they get their filler tobacco, but it is on 
the Orangeburg sandy loam and another sandy loam that they get 
their wrapper tobacco. 
Mr. Henry. Exactly; you get your filler tobacco on the clay. 
Mr. Wurrney. On the Orangeburg clay. This soil, when it is 
located about 100 or 200 miles from the ocean, appears to give a leaf 
which has a better burn, and we have identified the strip of this soil 
extending parallel to the coast about 200 miles inland, going from 
east Texas, we believe, across Louisiana. I know it is in Mississippi, 
and we have encountered it in Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. 
We have traced it right through; but the whole of that work lay in 
the ability to recognize the same soil where it was encountered in dif- 
ferent areas by different people; and so all through our work one of 
the most important things about it is this correlation of the soils to 
be sure that when we find a soil in one area and find the same soil in 
another area they are not to be described as different soils, because 
the chances are that what we advocate for the soil in eastern Texas is 
going to be applicable to the soil in Alabama; and we have actually 
found that so in this case. That is to say, we have grown tobacco this 
year on these Orangeburg soils in eastern Texas, in Perry County, 
Ala., and in Darlington County, S. C., and the tobacco is identical, 
and it has the aroma of the Cuban leaf. 
If the work had been done without supervision, without some 
directing head and without close inspection, the occurrence of the same 
soil in the Alabama area might have escaped us and we might have 
described it as a different soil and never have found its application 
to the tobacco problem. 
Mr. Henry. In Gadsden County of course they have been growing 
tobacco for two or three generations. The product of that area is 
known. Are you far enough along to be prepared to say that the 
tobacco grown on these Orangeburg clays, as you describe them in 
Texas, in Alabama, and in South Carolina will produce a tobacco that 
will compete or to any considerable extent take the place of the Cuban 
tobacco? 
Mr. Warryey. Our experiments, of course, were only started last 
year. We have the tobacco now in at Nacogdoches, Tex. We have 
the tobacco from all these places in together, where it can be handled 
by the same men and in exactly the same way, and I am going down 
on Friday with my experts to pass final judgment as to the character 
of the tobacco from these different places. 
Mr. Henry. It means a great deal to the tobacco industry of this 
