es may be laid across the
beams, about sixteen inches apart.

"When erected for the purpose, the sheds are built of sufficient height
to hang three or four tiers; the beams being about four feet apart, up
and down. In this way, a building forty feet by twenty-two will cure an
acre and a half of Tobacco. The drying-shed should be provided with
several doors on either side, for the free admission of air."

When the stalk is well dried (which is about the last of November or
beginning of December), select a damp day, remove the plants from the
poles, strip off the leaves from the stalk, and form them into small
bunches, or hanks, by tying the leaves of two or three plants together,
winding a leaf about them near the ends of the stems; then pack down
while still damp, lapping the tips of the hanks, or bunches, on each
other, about a third of their length, forming a stack with the buts, or
ends, of the leaf-stems outward; cover the top of the stack, but leave
the ends or outside of the mass exposed to the air. In cold weather, or
by mid-winter, it will be ready for market; for which it is generally
packed in damp weather, in boxes containing from two to four hundred
pounds.

A fair average yield per acre is from fourteen to eighteen hundred
pounds.

_To save Seed._--"Allow a few of the best plants to stand without
removing the flowering-shoots. In July and August, they will have a fine
appearance; and, if the season be favorable, each plant will produce as
much seed as will sow a quarter of an acre by the drill system, or stock
half a dozen acres by transplanting." A single capsule, or seed-pod,
contains about a thousand seeds.

GREEN TOBACCO.

Turkish Tobacco. Nicotiana rustica.

Leaves oval, from seven to ten inches long, and six or seven inches
broad, produced on long petioles. Compared with the preceding species,
they are much smaller, deeper colored, more glossy, thicker, and more
succulent. When fully grown, the plant is of a pyramidal form, and about
three feet in height. The flowers are numerous, greenish-yellow,
tubular, and nearly entire on the borders; the seed-vessels are ovoid,
more depressed at the top than those of the Connecticut Seed-leaf, and
much more prolific; seeds small, brownish.

[Illustration: Green Tobacco.]

The Green Tobacco is early, and remarkably hardy, but not generally
considered worthy of cultivation in localities where the Connecticut
Seed-leaf can be successfully grown. It is