14 EXPORT AND MANUFACTURING TOBACGOS. 
unpromising soil from the standpoint of Burley, the characteristi¢ 
cream-colored stalks and midribs are always noticeable. On these 
poorly adapted soils, of course, the cured product will not possess the 
same degree of excellence as on the typical Burley soils.. A portion of 
a field of thrifty young Burley plants in the bluegrass section (Fayette 
County, Ky.), is shown in figure 29. The peculiar characteristic 
white venation shows even in the picture. On the less hilly portions 
of the Burley district 2-horse machine setters are much used in trans- 
planting the young plants from the seed bed to the field. Such a 
machine is shown at work in figure 30. The use of these machines is 
Fic. 29.—Part of a field of thrifty young Burley tobacco plants in the bluegrass section, Fayette 
County, Ky. s 
also common in nearly all the cigar-tobacco districts. While the 
prepotent strength of this inherited modified chlorophyll characteristic 
of White Burley is, however, very remarkable, yet it is only on certain 
soils that all the poimts of excellence will be present sufficiently to 
make its production commercially successful under normal conditions. 
Friable mellow soils of a clayey or of a silty nature, strong and 
durable in natural fertility, and which have laid long in grass are at 
least among the most desirable requisites for producing a good grade 
of Burley whether or not they are exceptionally rich in lime or phos- 
phates. Since 1907, because of the unusual scarcity and consequent 
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