Archive image from page 46 of Cultivation of cigar-leaf tobacco in. Cultivation of cigar-leaf tobacco in Florida cultivationofcig62floy Year: 1899 ( • le'-tr Scale inreet. 0 5 lO \J> Fig. 3.—Ground plan of tobacco barn. filled two or three times. In this way the barns would be quite suffi- cient. TOBACCO GROWN BY THE FARMER COMPARED WITH THAT GROWN BY THE TOBACCO PLANTER. If a farmer of a small tobacco farm is asked what it costs to raise tobacco in Florida, he will say from 10 to 12 cents per pound, according to the season. The explanation of this is, the farmer lays out his farm not f
Archive image from page 46 of Cultivation of cigar-leaf tobacco in. Cultivation of cigar-leaf tobacco in Florida cultivationofcig62floy Year: 1899 ( • le'-tr Scale inreet. 0 5 lO \J> Fig. 3.—Ground plan of tobacco barn. filled two or three times. In this way the barns would be quite suffi- cient. TOBACCO GROWN BY THE FARMER COMPARED WITH THAT GROWN BY THE TOBACCO PLANTER. If a farmer of a small tobacco farm is asked what it costs to raise tobacco in Florida, he will say from 10 to 12 cents per pound, according to the season. The explanation of this is, the farmer lays out his farm not for the sole purpose of growing tobacco, but for producing everything needful for the support of himself and family. Such a farmer may have in cultivation 100 acres, only 8 or 10 of which are in tobacco. His atten- tion is given to producing corn, potatoes, peas, rice, and peanuts, and
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