Title Tobacco leaf : its culture and cure, marketing and manufacture. A practical handbook on the most approved methods in growing, harvesting, curing, packing and selling tobacco, also of tobacco manufacture / by J. B. Killebrew and Herbert Myrick

Published New York : Orange Judd Company, 1920

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Description xiv, 506 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm Contents Pt. I. Essentials in tobacco culture. Ch. I. Origin and spread of tobacco culture -- Ch. II. Status of the tobacco industry-on the useof the weed -- Ch. III. Varieties of the tobacco plant -- Ch. IV. Classification of tobacco grown in the United States, and the markets for it -- Ch. V. Sciences in its application to tobacco --Ch. VI. Manures and fertilizers -- Ch. VII. The seed bed-raising seed -- Ch. VIII. Transplanting -- Ch. IX. Tobacco barns and sheds -- Ch. X. On curing tobacco -- Ch. XI. Pests of tobacco-diseases, insects, the elements --Ch. XII. Marketing of tobacco -- Pt. II. Heavy leaf and manufacturing tobaccos. Ch. XIII. Heavy shipping tobacco -- Ch. XIV. The white burley and manufacturing tobacco -- Ch. XV. Yellow tobacco -- Ch. XVI. Perique tobacco -- Pt III. Cigar leaf tobaccos. Ch. XVII. General considerations of cigar leaf -- Ch. XVIII. Special fertilization for cigar leaf -- Ch. XIX. Culture of cigar leaf -- Ch. XX. Cigar leaf tobacco at the West and South -- Pt. IV. Tobacco manufacture. Ch. XXI. On the manufacturing of tobacco -- Ch. XXII. Tobacco as a remedy -- Appendix, statistics, etc Summary "The object of the authors of this work is to give a comprehensive account of the tobacco industry in the United States, and its relations to other countries." -- p. xvii Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Tobacco industry -- United States. Tobacco -- United States. Author Myrick, Herbert, 1860-1927.

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