22, CIRCULAR 249, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Extension of any type of tobacco into new districts is feasible only 
to the extent that the soils and climatic conditions are suitable, and 
this limitation governs the degree to which Burley can be substituted 
for the dark air-cured and dark fired types produced in neighboring 
districts. There are limited areas in the Black Patch where Burley 
can be grown with success. For example, in Ballard County, Ky., 
there is a narrow strip of somewhat elevated land on which Burley 
has been produced for a number of years, although Paducah fire- 
cured is the predominant type in the surrounding country. Similarly, 
in Christian County and several nearby counties of Kentucky and 
Tennessee, Burley seems to flourish. It is true of many soils in these 
districts, however, that the Burley they produce is not of the best 
quality. In years of scant supplies and high prices or in years when 
the weather is favorable to the production of a ‘‘smoking”’ crop, 
Burley may be profitable even on soils that for this type are marginal, 
but it is apt to be unprofitable on those soils when supplies become 
ample and prices in general are lower, or when the weather conditions 
are such as to induce a filler crop, useful mainly in the manufacture of 
chewing tobacco. 
Burley has long been one of the most popular of the manufacturing 
types. In the earlier years, before it developed into a cigarette type, 
this popularity rested upon its unusual adaptability for the manufac- 
ture of both chewing and smoking tobaccos. For the former use, the 
quality which most recommended this type to the manufacturer was 
its ‘‘drinking”’ capacity; that is, its remarkable ability to absorb the 
sweetening and flavoring sauces used in the manufacture of plug 
tobacco. Itis claimed that Burley will take up 40 to 50 percent of its 
own weight of such sauces. In this respect Burley tobacco is in a 
class by itself (19). In the manufacture of cut-plug and rubbed 
smoking tobacco other than granulated, Burley is predominant. In 
the manufacture of granulated smoking tobacco it is probably out- 
ranked by flue-cured. 
Burley tobacco, therefore, although not an important export type, 
meets.a wide range of domestic manufacturing needs. The require- 
ments for chewing purposes will probably continue to diminish; those 
for pipe smoking will probably always be large and may increase; 
those for cigarette manufacture will probably increase for many 
years to come. Since it will not be possible to produce cigarette 
tobacco to the exclusion of grades not suited for that purpose, Burley 
will be dependent upon outlets for its heavy leaf, and notwithstanding 
the dwindling consumption of chewing tobacco, the manufacture of 
smoking and chewing tobacco will probably supply such an outlet. 
MARYLAND, TYPE 32 
Tobacco was an important crop in Maryland even in earliest colonial 
times and, as in Virginia, is interwoven with the political and economic 
history of the colony. 
Maryland enjoyed one important advantage over her sister colony 
to the west and south, because of a fundamental difference in the form 
of government. Virginia was ruled by a direct representative of the 
British Crown, and in all political and economic respects the colony 
was administered with an eye to the advantages that might accrue 
to the British Government and British commerce. It came about, 
