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year to compete for the best 10 hogsheads of any class, and awarded the third 
premium, and was afterwards sold for $34 per hundred. 
The record thus made at the several tobacco fairs of 1867 induced many of the 
enterprising planters of Brown County, Ohio, and Bracken County, Ky., to plant 
largely of this kind of tobacco, and its culture has been gradually increasing through- 
out the entire district used for producing cutting tobacco until the present time, 
when it would be difficult to find any person in this large tobacco region so ignorant 
of his pecuniary interest as to plant any other kind. 
The character of the soil that first produced the White Burley is strong, black, 
coarse river-hill land, and underlaid with limestone. The growth of timber cut 
from this land was principally sugar, lin, buckeye, ash, walnut, hickory, oak, and 
beech. Although it is well known to the country dealer that much of the best 
quality of White Burley is grown on this kind of land, experience has satisfied us 
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FiIGuRE 8.—Typical field of a stand-up variety of Burley tobacco on a farm near 
Columbia, Tenn. 
that any good, strong, old or new land that will produce any other class of cutting 
tobacco will produce this. 
In 1867 I gave this growth of tobacco the name of White Burley, owing to its 
similitude in size and texture to the ordinary Burley, and to its almost white 
color when thoroughly ripe. The cultivation is the same as for any other cutting 
tobacco. 
Burley tobacco has undergone a further process of evolution, for 
whereas the demand of earlier days depended upon the great require- 
ments for the manufacture of chewing and smoking tobacco, less and 
less is now used for the manufacture of chewing tobacco, while a new 
and greater outlet for Burley has been provided by the cigarette in- 
dustry. 
Leaf requirements for chewing, pipe-smoking, and cigarette pur- 
poses differ greatly. For chewing tobacco the so-called filler grades 
are used—heavy-bodied dark or red leaf and tips. These grades are 
as a rule too strong for smoking purposes, and will absorb large 
