Successful farming : a ready reference on all phases of agriculture for farmers of the United States and Canada . Principal Tobacco Districts.—The finest cigar tobaccos are grown inthe New England states of Connecticut and Massachusetts, and in theSouth in Florida, Georgia and Texas. These states produce the fine gradecigar wrapper leaf. In the New England states it is grown under clothshades, while in the Southern states a slat shade is used. These shade-grown tobaccos rival the fine tobaccos imported from Sumatra and Cubaboth in quality of burn and taste and in wrapping capacity. The binder
Successful farming : a ready reference on all phases of agriculture for farmers of the United States and Canada . Principal Tobacco Districts.—The finest cigar tobaccos are grown inthe New England states of Connecticut and Massachusetts, and in theSouth in Florida, Georgia and Texas. These states produce the fine gradecigar wrapper leaf. In the New England states it is grown under clothshades, while in the Southern states a slat shade is used. These shade-grown tobaccos rival the fine tobaccos imported from Sumatra and Cubaboth in quality of burn and taste and in wrapping capacity. The binder (341) 342 SUCCESSFUL FARMING tobaccos are produced in the states of Connecticut and Wisconsin; whilefiller leaf of the various types comes from the Miami Valley of- Ohio,and from Pennsylvania, Florida, Texas, Georgia and Connecticut. The manufacturing tobaccos, air, sun, flue and fire-cured, are grown inKentucky, Ohio, Virginia, Tennessee and North and South also produces a fine grade of pipe tobacco, but most of thistobacco is exported to England and France. Nearly all of the fire-cured. Field of Virginia Heavy Tobacco. tobaccos produced in the above states are exported to the various partsof the world. Tobacco Soils.—It might be well to mention briefly a few of the prin-cipal soils upon which tobacco is grown. The heavy tobaccos of Virginiaare grown in the Piedmont District on soil known as the Cecil clay or Cecilclay loam. This soil is a heavy, red clay soil and produces a heavy-bodieddark-colored tobacco. This type of soil is also found in the tobacco dis-tricts of Tennessee and part of Kentucky. The soil of the Carolinas isa very light-gray, sandy soil and belongs to the Norfolk series of soils asclassified by the U. S. Bureau of Soils. This soil produces a light-colored,thin-textured leaf which is used in the manufacture of cigarettes andgranulated tobaccos. The soil upon which the burly tobacco is grown isalso a light soil, as is also the tobacco so
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