Chapter X: Tobacco Planters and Plantations

The Connecticut Planter -- Intelligence of Tobacco Growers
-- Best Connecticut Seed Leaf -- Love for the Plant --
Virginia Planters -- A Virginia Plantation -- The
Plant-Patch -- Planting, Topping and Priming -- Suckering --
Crop-Gathering -- Curing and Sorting -- Tobacco Markets --
Ohio Tobacco -- Mode of Cure -- Kentucky Tobacco-Growing --
The Kentucky Planter -- Florida Tobacco -- Florida
Plantation -- Tobacco in Louisiana -- California Tobacco
Lands -- Mexican Tobacco -- Plants around Vera Cruz --
Tobacco in St Domingo -- Cuba Plantations -- Mode of Working
-- Soil and Climate -- Tobacco-Growing in Germany -- Method
of Culture -- Extent of Culture -- Tobacco-Raising in
Prussia -- Tobacco in Holland -- Dutch Planters -- A Plea
for Tobacco -- Tobacco Culture in Australia -- Arabian
Plantations -- Tobacco in Africa -- Syrian Tobacco --
Latakia Tobacco -- Growing Tobacco in India -- Curing
Tobacco in India -- Turks Cultivating Tobacco -- Japanese
Tobacco -- Persian Tobacco -- Tobacco Culture, Philippine
Islands -- Climate of the Islands -- Fragrant Manillas --
Tropical Tobacco............................................. 311

CHAPTER XI.

VARIETIES.

Kinds used for Cigars -- Dwarf Tobacco -- Havana Tobacco --
Yara and Virginia Tobacco -- James River Tobacco -- Ohio
Tobacco -- South American Tobacco -- Celebrated Brands of
Tobacco -- Russian Tobacco -- Columbian Tobacco -- Tobacco
of Brazil -- The Orinoco Tobacco -- Persian Tobacco --
French Tobacco -- Spanish Tobacco -- Japanese Tobacco --
Manilla Tobacco.............................................. 382

CHAPTER XII.

TOBACCO HOUSES.

Tobacco Sheds -- Stripping Houses -- Virginia Tobacco Sheds
-- Ordinary Sheds -- Superior Sheds -- Ohio Sheds --
Kentucky and Tennessee Sheds -- Foreign Tobacco Sheds........ 405

CHAPTER XIII.

TOBACCO CULTURE.

Hot Beds -- Virginia Plant Patch -- Tennessee Plant Bed --
Cuban Plant Bed -- Covering Plant Bed -- Selection of Soil
-- The Soil Affecting Color -- Preparing the Soil --
Virginia Methods -- Burning Brush -- Implements --
Transplanting Plants -- Setting -- Seasons in Mexico and
Persia -- The American Transplanter -- Pests -- Worming --
Backward Plants -- Topping -- Suckers -- Maturation -- The
Harvest -- Cutting -- Hanging -- Cutting time in Cuba --
Harvesting in Virginia -- The Season in other Places --
Curing -- Curing by Smoke -- Yellow Tobacco -- Stripping --
Assorting -- Shading -- Stemming -- Packing -- Casing -- Old
Style -- Resistance to Dampness -- Prizing -- Marking --
Baling -- Certificates -- Firing -- White Rust -- Seed
Plants -- Maturing of Seed -- Second Growth.................. 415

CHAPTER XIV.

THE PRODUCTION, COMMERCE AND MANUFACTURE OF TOBACCO.

Early History of Tobacco -- Cultivation by Spaniards at St.
Domingo -- Annual Product of Cuba -- Amount of Land under
Cultivation in U.S. -- Cultivation in the South -- Annual
Product of Europe, Asia and Africa -- Government Monopoly --
Source of Revenue -- Manufacture of Cigarettes -- Increase
of Tobacco Culture........................................... 478