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U.S.DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
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Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry, Wm. A. Taylor Chief.
February 27, 1914.
TOBACCO CULTURE.
By W. W. GARNER,
Physiologist in Charge of Tobacco and Plant-Nutrition Invesligations.
INTRODUCTION.
The tobacco plant may be grown successfully in all latitudes from southern
Canada to the Tropics and on a great variety of soils, but the commercial value
of the product is influenced to a greater degree by the particular soil and
climatic conditions under which the plant is grown than is almost any other
important crop. These facts are so well recognized that the tobacco industry
has become highly specialized, and the trade regularly looks to certain well-
defined areas of production for its supply of the various classes and types of
leaf required. In these tobacco-producing districts the necessary facilities for
marketing are available, and prevailing prices of the cured leaf are governed
largely by the relative supply and demand and by the quality of the leaf pro-
duced.
Each important district produces a tobacco of certain well-known character-
istics which make it desirable for special purposes of manufacture or export.
Moreover, in practically all of these districts the production can be readily
increased to meet any increased demand at profitable prices. For these rea-
sons efforts to introduce the commercial growing of tobacco in sections outside
of the established producing centers are likely to result in failure, either be-
cause the leaf produced is not quite right in type or satisfactory marketing
facilities are not available. Furthermore, any development of the industry in
a new section on a large scale, which would be essential for economical market-
ing, would most likely lead to overproduction and, as a consequence, unprofit-
able prices. As a matter of fact, overproduction is a constant menace in all of
the established centers of tobacco growing.
The methods of growing and handling the crop must be varied according to
the type of leaf which it is desired to produce, for the kind of tobacco obtained
is influenced very greatly by the methods of growing and handling which are
employed. The methods for the production of the various types briefly out-
lined in the present bulletin, though possibly susceptible of improvement in
some of the details, are the best that can be recommended in view of the pres-
ent knowledge and experience of investigators and the more successful growers.
CLASSES AND TYPES OF TOBACCO.
As is well known, tobacco is manufactured into various forms for consump-
tion, but large quantities also are exported in an unmanufactured state, so that
we may distinguish three general classes of tobacco, i. e., (1) cigar tobaccos,
(2) export tobaccos, and (3) manufacturing tobaccos. By manufacturing
tobaccos are meant all types used in manufactures other than cigars. The
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Garner, W. W. (Wightman Wells), b. 1875. Tobacco Culture, pamphlet, 1914; Washington D.C.. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc85775/m1/1/: accessed March 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.