as the tobacco trade. However, an important result of the soil survey 

 and experiments around Willis was the discovery that the t}T)e of soil 

 had a marked influence on the quality of leaf produced, and that the 

 leaf grown on the tj^e given the name Orangeburg sandj^ loan (a red- 

 dish or grayish sandy loam with a red clay subsoil) possessed a much 

 finer aroma than the leaf gro^vn on any other soil in the area. 



Other surveys made during 1902, 1903, and 1904 have established the 

 fact that the Orangeburg sandy loam is a soil of w4de distribution in 

 east Texas, as well as in the other Gulf and South Atlantic States. It 

 is associated with other Orangeburg soils, of which the Orangeburg 

 clay is also believed to be a good tobacco soil. In Anderson County 

 alone 102,800 acres of the Orangeburg sandj^ loam and- 35,904 acres of 

 the Orangeburg claj^ were mapped. In Nacogdoches County, in an area 

 of 100 square miles mapped around the town of Nacogdoches, 16,320 

 acres consisted of the Orangeburg sandj' loam, and 16,704 acres of the 

 Orangeburg clay. In Houston Count}' large bodies of this sandj' loam 

 are found. In Alabama the Perry County survey showed 82,000 acres 

 of Orangeburg sandy loam, while surveys in South Carolina, Georgia, 

 Florida, Mississippi, and Louisiana have included areas of this t^-pe. 



There is thus an ample area of soil suitable for the growing of cigar- 

 leaf tobacco in Texas and other Southern States, and in Texas particu- 

 larly, and the thought occurred that whatever deficiencies in the leaf 

 formerly produced were due to an indiscriminating use of soils might at 

 once be eliminated in the light of knowledge of soil adaptation gained 

 during the Willis and subsequent surveys. Following out this idea, 

 the Bureau in 1903 conducted a series of tobacco experiments on the 

 Orangeburg soils around Nacogdoches, Lufkin, and Woodville, Tex. 

 Three acres of tobacco were grown near the first-mentioned town, 3 

 acres at Lufkin, and 3^ acres at Woodville; the entire crop, after fer- 

 mentation and packing, amounting to 3,868 pounds. During 1904 

 further experiments were conducted at Nacogdoches, Crockett, and 

 Giddings, in all about 10 acres of tobacco being grown. Owing to 

 unfavorable conditions at some of the stations the tobacco on onh' 84 

 acres was harvested, from which 5,461 pounds, or 624 pounds per acre, 

 were secured. 



The 1903 crop is now being sold and distributed among the principal 

 cigar manufacturers of the country, who express satisfaction with the 

 leaf. It is the general feeling of the trade that this tobacco will fill an 

 important place in the market, if produced in sufficient quantities and 

 at reasonable prices. The tobacco being an entirely new product, and 

 having at the present time no fixed status in the market, it is to be 

 expected that its introduction will be more or less slow and tedious, 

 and the growers of this Texas leaf must not at first look for the highest 

 prices. On the other hand, judging from the character of the leaf grown 

 and cured under the supervision of the Bureau, the prices should increase 



