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 tabacco manufacture / by J. B. Killebrew ... and Herbert Myrick.

  • Killebrew, J. B. (Joseph Buckner), 1831-1906.
Date:
1897
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Credit: 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 tabacco manufacture / by J. B. Killebrew ... and Herbert Myrick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE OF CONTENTS PART I. Essentials in Tobacco Culture. Page. CHAPTER I. Origin and Spread of Tobacco Culture 3 CHAPTER II. Status of the Tobacco Industry—On the Use of the Weed 16 CHAPTER III. Varieties of the Tobacco Plant 27 CHAPTER IV. Classification of Tobacco Grown in the United States, and the Markets for it 46 CHAPTER V. Science in its Application to Tobacco 79 CHAPTER VI. Manures and Fertilizers 105 CHAPTER VII. The Seed Bed—Raising Seed 150 CHAPTER VIII. Transplanting : 169 CHAPTER IX. Tobacco Barns and Sheds 179 CHAPTER X. On Curing Tobacco 208 CHAPTER XI. Pestsof Tobacco—Diseases, Insects, the Elements.. 233 CHAPTER XII. Marketing of Tobacco 263 PART II. Heavy Leaf and Manufacturing Tobaccos. CHAPTER XIII. Heavy Shipping Tobacco 290 CHAPTER XIV. The White Burley and Manufacturing Tobacco ... 333 CHAPTER XV. Yellow Tobacco 352 CHAPTER XVI. Perique Tobacco 370 PART III. Cigar Leaf Tobaccos. CHAPTER XVII. General Considerations of Cigar Leaf 379 CHAPTER XVIII. Special Fertilization for Cigar Leaf 391 CHAPTER XIX. Culture of Cigar Leaf 404 CHAPTER XX. Cigar Leaf Tobacco at the West and South 433 PART IV. Tobacco manufacture. SHATTER XXI. On the Manufacture of Tobacco 452 f HAPTER XXII. Tobacco as a Remedy 475 APPENDIX, statistics, etc 483