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can be done with little difficulty, but in this region the nature of the 
soil would be a serious handicap in such a practice and would put 
the district at an economic disadvantage if it were not that it is so 
well adapted to a crop like bluegrass (which loosens up a heavy clay 
soil) and to an intensive crop like tobacco, which yields a compara- 
tively large income per acre. 
The hilly, less productive, and cheaper lands can be organized 
more profitably as distinctly stock farms, with little or no tobacco. 
Asa rule, however, the farmer must raise some tobacco to meet the 
requirements of labor. 
The farmer who can command but a small area of land should, in 
order to make his farm most profitable, specialize in tobacco or, 
where market conditions permit, in dairying. On farms of from 
260 to 360 acres in size the best results can be obtained by organizing 
on the basis of the stock-with-tobacco type, which emphasizes live 
stock but cultivates an area in tobacco large enough to utilize labor 
resources to advantage and to secure the advantage of diversity. 
WASHINGTON : GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1917 
