ba,
and far superior to the Connecticut seed-leaf. Where the
variety known as the Cuba filler has been tried, it has
succeeded finely in this county, possessing that delicate
and peculiar aroma so highly prized in the Havana cigars. We
need but the capital to make the most profitable crop that
is grown. It is a fact, that of all the counties of the
State, many of them abounding in the very finest soil,
Gadsden is the only one that has succeeded in making the
Cuba tobacco a staple market-crop. Prior to 1860 it rivaled
in net returns the great staple cotton, and from present
indications, it is about to resume its former status among
the great agricultural products of the country."

"Whether this success is attributable to any peculiarity in
the elements of the soil, I am not able to determine, but
this fact is worthy of note, that, except immediately on the
banks of the Apalachicola River, which forms the Western
boundary of the County, there is an entire absence of the
rotten limestone which so largely pervades the other
sections of the State. For the planter of limited means,
there is no crop so well suited to his condition as the Cuba
tobacco. To produce a given result there is a less area of
land required than is demanded for the production of any
other field crop. The cultivation, harvesting, and
preparation for market is simple, and the labor so light
that it may be participated in by every member of the
family, male and female, over six years of age. The growth
of the plant is so rapid, and its arrival at maturity so
quick, that it never interferes with any of the provision
crops, and rarely with a moderate cotton crop."

In Louisiana the tobacco plant flourishes well and grows as well and
as luxuriantly as sugar cane. Even along the banks of the Mississippi
the plants attain good size, and succeed as finely as in some of the
other parishes in the interior of the State. The Perique and Louisiana
tobacco are the principal varieties cultivated, and attain nearly the
size of Connecticut seed leaf. In St. James parish the soil seems well
adapted for Perique tobacco, and here it readily takes on that black
hue that is one of the peculiar features of this singular variety. In
Coddo parish tobacco is cultivated to some extent, but does not
produce a leaf equal to that grown i