THE PLANTER'S GUIDE FOR CULTIVATING AND 

 CURING TOBACCO. 



. CULTIVATION OF TOBACCO. 



The cultivation of tobacco in the L T nited States has become so extensive as 

 to embrace at least forty-two States and Territories, which produce an annual 

 crop of about three hundred million pounds, with a value to the producers of 

 at least forty million dollars. 



Therefore it is a matter of great importance to the planter how to cultivate 

 and prepare it for market in the best manner and at the least possible ex- 

 pense. 



After making careful observations, we believe that tobacco, with skillful cul- 

 ture and management, is the most remunerative of any crop grown, and a 

 poor business if grown and handled without the application of those principles 

 and appliances which extensive experience has proved to be the best adapted 

 to the end desired. 



VARIETIES OF TOEACCO. 



■ Loudon enumerates fourteen different species of tobacco, of which only one, 

 the Nicotiana Tabaceum, is generally cultivated. Of this species there are 

 many varieties, each possessing qualities supposed to be derived from clh 

 soil, and modes of cultivation. 



Few, if any, plants are so much affected by the peculiarities of the soil on 

 which it is grown, by circumstances of fertilization and mode of curing, as 

 tobacco. For example, the Broad-Leaf Orinoco, when cultivated on the rich 

 and highly-manured lands of Kentucky, produces the dark, strong-flavored 

 "shipping tobacco;" and when grown on the light gray soil of Virginia or 

 North Carolina, with but little or no manure, and cured in a close barn with 

 artificial heat, will produce the bright "wrappers" for which these Stak 

 so famous. 



The variety known as Connecticut Seed-Leaf is grown principally in M i 

 chusettSj Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, and is used in the 

 manufacture of cigars, both for fillers and wrappers. Florida, portions of ( )hio, 

 Pennsylvania, and other States produce the Cuba, which is also used i 

 manufacture of cigars. Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky Ten 



