nessee, Missouri, and other States cultivate many varieties, prominent among 

 which are the Big and Little Orinoco, (or Broad and Narrow Leaf Orinoco.) 

 Big and Little Frederick, Blue and Yellow Pryor, Big Stem, White Stem, 

 Gooch, and numerous other kinds that bear different names in different locali- 

 ties : and, though mostly hybrids, they each possess some good qualities which 

 recommend them to the growers. 



SEED. 



Whatever the variety cultivated, it is very important that you have good 

 seed for sowing. In order to secure this hereafter, a few of the earliest and 

 most promising plants should be selected from the seed-bed, transplanted in 

 some favorable spot, and carefully attended throughout the season. In time, 

 these should be pruned of all except the large leaves, and only the two topmost 

 branches left to bloom. These plants should be carefully suckered, and about 

 the first of October every pod not thoroughly ripe plucked off and thrown 

 away, and the others gathered and put in a dry place to cure. When dry, the 

 seed should be rubbed out, sifted, and placed in a dry vessel, and kept where 

 no dampness can reach them. Seed preserved in this manner will keep for 

 years. By giving a little extra attention to your seed-plants, you can increase 

 the yield and improve the quality of your tobacco. 



SELECTION AND PREPARATION OF PLANT-BEDS. 



In selecting a place for plant-beds, remember that you wish to obtain 

 and vigorous plants : therefore, take a rich, warm hillside, protected by timber 

 or otherwise. Red lands are usually unsuited for this purpose. Never use wet 

 or cold land. After finding a suitable place, select a dry time during the 

 month of December or January, the sooner the better, rake off the leaves, lay 

 down skids (about 3 inches in diameter) 3 feet apart, across which lay a bed of 

 wood 5 or 6 feet wide, and high enough to burn for about an hour and a half. 

 and yet leave a sufficient quantity to remove and kindle in another place. 



After the fire has burned the length of time specified, move it the width of 

 the first layer, then throw on brush, a good bed of wood, and continue 

 before. Every farmer ought to provide himself with iron hooks for pulling 

 plant-bed fires. If it is possible to injure land by hard burning, we have never 

 experienced it; and think that where one bed is injured by burning, ten are 

 injured for the want of it. For every ten thousand plants required, there 

 ought to be at least ten yards square of plant-bed. A bed of this size will 

 supply more than the number mentioned, but it is much better to ha»\ e some 

 or your neighbor than to be under the necessity 01 begging plants. 



After burning, tlie land should remain untouched a few weeks, that the 1 



