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Excerpt from Directions to Those Who Raise Tobacco in This Province Of preparing ground for planting, distance of one plant from another 8m. The land that is intended for Tobacco, ought to be ploughed up as early in the spring as circum stances will permit, then to be well rolled and rak ed, for it is a maxim with husbandmen, that the better the land is pulverised the better every thing grows that is put in it. - In Maryland they gener ally give about three feet distance from one plant to another, but where the land is very rich, a little more, and as the land is much richer in this province, (particularly on the River than it is in any part of Maryland waers they raise Tobacco, I think the plants ought to be at least from three feet two inches to three feet four inches a part. It must be obvious to every person, who ever paid any attention to the subject, how badly a plant grows in the shade, of course when Tobacco is planted too close, one half of the leaves on the stalk are robbed of a due proposition of light and air, and all the lower leaves will be thin and chafi'y. I would advise the intelligent planter to make ex periments, and on soils of equal strength to plant some tobacco at three feet apart and some at three feet four inches, he will then be better able to judge which is best. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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