58 : EXPORT AND MANUFACTURING TOBACCOS. 
would sell for a higher price per pound. Many soils which with 
fertilizers would produce a good yield of fine tobacco at a satisfactory 
Fic. 23.—Field of “fresh land” tobacco of the flue-cured type in the Old Belt district, Pittsylvania 
County, Va. 2 ! 
Fic, 24.—Typical flue-curing tobacco barn, Old Beit section, Pittsylvania County, Va. The pile of 
wood is for burning in the furnaces. 
profit would produce almost nothing without them. The use of fer- 
tilizers was, therefore, a most potent factor in rendering possible the 
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