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knowledge of the cultivation of tobacco in Europe, but my 
observations in America led me to an opposite conclusion. 
Q. — Is it not generally allowed now that tobacco can be 
grown here ? 
Yes. 
I Q. — What, then, is the difficulty now in the way? 
A. — The opponents of the cultivation of tobacco in England 
have somewhat shifted their ground, and now it is said that it 
cannot be cured, and even when cured it will not be worth 
smoking. In reply, I can only say that our attempts at curing 
have been more successful than I anticipated, and although the 
required point of time has not yet arrived when we can judge 
of the flavour, we are assured of the colour and combustibility ; 
as to the quality, I have the best authority to state that my 
Kentucky is worth 4Jrf. or bd. a pound ; in other words, that 
it is equal to very useful dark Kentucky produced in America, 
fit for wrappers. And if the crop can be grown to pay, yet 
another advantage ensues in the question of manure, in which 
the tobacco crop is extravagant ; for the agricultural desideratum 
in England at the present time is a crop that requires a large 
quantity of manure, and will pay for it, for stock can thereby be 
kept at a lower price. 
Q. — I do not quite follow you that tobacco is a useful crop 
to the farmer on account of i*£ requiring a large quantity of 
manure. For surely the exhausting nature of this crop is 
one of the main arguments brought against it? 
A. — It is a strong argument against English tobacco-growing 
so long as the crop does not pay ; but if the crop can be made 
to pay for the manure it requires, then it becomes one of the 
strongest arguments in its favour. A farmer growing tobacco 
would include in the expenses of his crop a certain amount of 
money for manure per acre, and therefore this manure would 
have either to be bought or made, and if made by the farmer, 
the value of the manure would be deducted from the cost of 
fattening animals ; in plain language, the manurial value of the 
feeding-stuffs would be sold by the farmer to himself for his 
tobacco crop. This is already exemplified in Kent, in the cherry 
orchards, by the following analogous case. Mr. George Webb, 
agent to an estate where there are large cherry orchards, the 
fruit belonging to the landlord, and not to the tenant, allows the 
tenant renting the grass under the cherry-trees 15 percent, of the 
value of the root-crops, one-third of the linseed-, or cotton-cake, 
one-fourth of the corn, or maize, one-sixth of the bran, pollard, 
or grains that are fed in the orchards, since he considers that the 
cherries are a sufficiently profitable crop to pay for the manurial 
value to his land thus obtained. Wheat used to pay for manure 
