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FIG. PAGE 1. CUBAN TOBACCO PLANT 4 2. MARYLAND TOBACCO PLANT 5 3. AMERSFORT TOBACCO PLANT 6 4. STRAW MAT FOR COVERING SEED-BEDS 47 5. SHADE FRAMES USED IN CUBA 49 6. QUINCUNX PLANTING 52 7. TOBACCO WORM AND MOTH 56 8. SHED FOR SUN-CURING TOBACCO 83 9. HANGING BUNCHES OF LEAVES...
Details concerning the different modes of cultivating and curing, and of the extent of the production and commerce in tobacco in the various countries, will best be given in the...
5. CHAPTER III.Growing tobacco is only half the battle. Having raised a crop to a state of perfection, the next object is to cure it for the market. This branch of the business demands fully a...
3. CHAPTER II.The following observations on the methods of cultivating tobacco have reference more particularly to the processes as conducted in Cuba, India, and the United States; this branc...
4. mild. Although the seed-bed is ready now, it must not be left to itself,and requires some care. The plants must always have sufficient moisture, and if timely rains do not fall, they must be watered with weak liquid manure as often as needed. Should...
7. CHAPTER V.This chapter embraces the manufacture of cut, cake and roll tobacco, cigars, cigarettes, and snuff. It is impossible to indicate the precise form in which each kind of tobacco-l...
8. CHAPTER VI.The active principle of tobacco is a volatile, highly poisonous alkaloid, called Nicotine (C₁₀H₁₄N₂). Although green tobacco-plants contain generally more nicotine than the leav...
11. CHAPTER IX.J. Neander. Tabacologia. Lugduni-Batavorum: 1622. B. Stella. Il Tabacco. Rome: 1669. S. Paulli. Treatise on Tobacco, &c. London: 1746. P. Winther. Tobaks-plantning. Kjoebenhavn:...
10. CHAPTER VIII.A comparison of the taxation of the chief nations of the world for the consumption of tobacco has been published in the _Imperial Statistics of Germany_. Of the countries where...
9. CHAPTER VII.It is said that in Thuringia, over 1000 tons yearly of dried beetroot-leaves are passed off as tobacco. These leaves, and those of chicory and cabbage, are similarly employed in...
2. CHAPTER I.Next to the most common grains and pulses, probably no plant is so widely and generally cultivated as tobacco. In what country or at what date its use originated has little to d...
1. CHAPTER IX.FIG. PAGE 1. CUBAN TOBACCO PLANT 4 2. MARYLAND TOBACCO PLANT 5 3. AMERSFORT TOBACCO PLANT 6 4. STRAW MAT FOR COVERING SEED-BEDS 47 5. SHADE FRAMES USED IN CUBA 49 6. QUINCUNX PL...