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high prices of Burley, due to the efforts of the Burley Tobacco Grow- 
ers’ Association to restrict the supply and advance the price, unusual 
efforts have been made to introduce the production of Burley tobacco 
in a large number of new sections. These undertakings, on account 
of the scarcity and high prices, have usually proved profitable to the 
grower, but the discrimination in prices as compared with better 
erades of Burley was in many cases very marked. With normal 
market conditions this low-grade Burley produced on unsuitable soils 
in all probability would have been still further discriminated against _ 
to the extent of rendering its production unprofitable. 
It is noteworthy, however, that many of these experimental crops 
of Burley in untried sections proved much better in quality than 
expected and compared very favorably with the product of the 
established Burley territory, and it seems quite possible that some 
Fig. 30.—Transplanting and watering tobacco seedlings by machine, a common method in parts of 
the Burley district and in nearly all the cigar-tobacco districts. 
of these new locations where Burley has been introduced may develop 
into permanent producing territory. 
In 1909 scattered crops of Burley were tried here and there over 
much of piedmont and middle Virginia and in some parts of the 
valley between the Blue Ridge and the Alleghenies. So far as could 
be judged from the results of these experiments, considerable good 
Burley was grown on the strong, red, nonlimestone soils in the 
piedmont and on some of the limestone soils of the valley. Most of 
the Burley produced on the gray soils of the middle and eastern 
section of the State, however, was of very inferior quality. 
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