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nor is it essential that it should be, yet it forms a very important branch of agricultural industry of certain sections of this state and is deserving of attention which it merits. None of the other large agricultural crops require such careful and intelligent culture; none yield so readily to the varying influences of climate, soils, fertilizers, cultivation, harvesting and curing; there is scarcely another farm product the money value of which is enhanced to such a degree by a practicle and intelligent knowledge of these agencies. A thorough of the various conditions necessary for attaining the best results should require information concerning the lands best suited to the production of tobacco; kind of fertilizers best suited to tobacco; best mode of handling the plant from the time the seed are sown to the time the plant is carried to market; also the value