0 or
1,300 lbs. nett, but if the tobacco is found to be totally bad, and
refused as unmerchantable, the whole is publicly burnt in a place
set apart for that purpose. However, if it be judged that there is
some merchantable tobacco in the hogshead, the owner must unpack the
whole publicly on the spot, for he is not permitted to take any of
it away again, and must select and separate the good from the bad;
the last is immediately committed to the flames, and for the first
he receives a transfer note, specifying the weight, quality, &c.
This great and very laudable care was taken by the public to
prevent frauds, which, however, was not always effectual, for, even
with all these precautions, many acts of iniquity and imposition
were committed.

So little is this crop cultivated in the States north of Maryland,
that scarcely any notice has been taken of it in the agricultural or
other public journals.

In Connecticut, in some few towns of Hartford county, considerable
attention has been directed to it for a number of years past. A ton
and a-half the acre is said to be no uncommon yield. The tobacco is
planted very thick, two feet and a half each way. The seed came
originally from Virginia. It is cured in houses, without having been
yellowed in the sun, and without the use of fire. It is said that the
best Havana cigars (as they are termed) are often manufactured from
mixed Cuba and American tobacco, and sold under that name in
Connecticut.

In the Connecticut Valley is produced about 500 tons of tobacco
annually, the average quantity, 1,500 lbs. per acre, value from seven
to ten cents per pound.

_Culture_.--Seed bed made rich and sown as cabbage early in April as
possible.

Land well ploughed and manured and harrowed as for corn, laid out in
rows three feet apart, and slight hills in the row about two and
a-half feet apart; begin to plant about 10th of June, the ground to be
kept clean with hoe and cultivator, and examine the plants and keep
clear of worms.

"When in blossom and before seed is formed, the plants must be topped
about thirty-two inches from the ground, having from sixteen to twenty
leaves on each stalk, after this the suckers are broken off, and the
plants kept clean till cut. When ripe the leaves are spotted, thick,
and will crack when pressed between the fingers and thumb. It is cut
at any time of the day, after the dew is off, left in the row till