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heat the quality will be improved, and if dried in the open air, 

 should have shades of boards to keep off rain and excess of sun. 

 The chief market for Connecticut tobacco is Bremen. 



In a number of the " Charleston Southern Planter," a remedy 

 is described for preventing the destruction of plants by the fly. 

 The -writer says : " I had a bushel or two of dry aslies put into a 

 large tub, and added train oil enough (say one gallon of oil to 

 the bushel of ashes) to damp and flavor the ashes completely : 

 this was well stirred and mixed with the hand, and so^nti broad- 

 cast over certain patches, and proved thoroughly effectual for 

 several years, while parts left without the remedy were de- 

 stroyed." 



The best ground for raising the plant, according to Capt. Carver 

 (" Treatise on Culture of Tobacco," &c.), is a warm rich soil, not 

 subject to be overrun with weeds. The soil in which it grows in 

 Virginia is inclining to sandy, consequently warm and light ; the 

 nearer, therefore, the nature of the land approaches to that, the 

 greater probability there is of its flourishing. The situation most 

 preferable for a plautation is the southern declivity of a hill, or a 

 spot sheltered from the blighting north winds. But at the same 

 time the plants must enjoy a free current of air ; for if that be 

 obstructed they will not prosper. 



The different sorts of seed not being distinguishable from each 

 other, nor the goodness to be ascertained by its appearance, great 

 caution should be used in obtaining the seed through some re- 

 sponsible mercantile house, or individual of character. 



Each capsule contains about a thousand seeds, and the whole 

 produce of a single plant has been estimated at 350,000. The 

 seeds are usually ripe in the month of September, and when per- 

 fectly dry may be rubbed out and preserved in bags till the fol- 

 lowing season. 



There is a large quantity of tobacco raised in the southern part 

 of Indiana annually, equal in quality to the tobacco raised in 

 Kentucky. In some counties the article is extensively cultivated, 

 and generally pays the producer a handsome profit on the labor 

 bestowed on it. The cultivation of it is becoming more extensive 

 every year. Nearly all this crop is taken to Louisville for sale, 

 very little being shipped south on account of the producer. 



Heretofore, owing to the heaviness of tobacco and bad 

 roads, the producer has encountered great difiiculties in getting 

 his crop to market. The hauling of a few hogsheads fifty or sixty 

 miles, or even forty, is no light job, even over good roads. Hence, 

 tobacco has not been as extensively cultivated as it would have 

 been under different circumstances. But, with the facilities 

 afforded by the railroads in carrying their crops to market, I 

 doubt not the farmers of the interior will more generally engage 

 in the cultivation of tobacco, and those who have been in the 

 habit of raising small crops will extend theii' operations. 



In Maryland the seed is sown in beds of fine mould, and the 

 plants arising therefrom are transplanted in the beginning of 



