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                                TOBACCO:
                  GROWING, CURING, AND MANUFACTURING.

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                                TOBACCO:
                   GROWING, CURING, & MANUFACTURING.

                        A HANDBOOK FOR PLANTERS

                       IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD.

                               EDITED BY
                      C. G. WARNFORD LOCK, F.L.S.

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                 E. & F. N. SPON, 125, STRAND, LONDON.
                      NEW YORK: 35, MURRAY STREET.
                                 1886.




                                PREFACE.


Tobacco growing is one of the most profitable branches of tropical and
sub-tropical agriculture; the$1“$2”$3has even been proposed as a
remunerative crop for the British farmer, and is very extensively grown
in continental Europe. The attention recently drawn to the subject has
resulted in many inquiries for information useful to the planter
desirous of starting a tobacco estate. But beyond scattered articles in
newspapers and the proceedings of agricultural societies, there has been
no practical literature available for the English reader. It is a little
remarkable that while our neighbours have been writing extensively about
tobacco growing, of late years, no English book devoted exclusively to
this subject has been published for nearly thirty years.