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A southern exposure is generally sought for fine tobacco. This soil is dryer and warmer, and the plant matures earlier. The rich black soils of western slopes will not produce fine tobacco, while a few yards off, on the other slope, the finest may grow.

Reports show a general average of thirty three percent of preferred tobacco soils cultivated, and the proportion of new lands is reported at forty-five percent. In Buncombe and Madison counties, the proportion of new lands is eighty percent and the general average proportion of unclaimed lands adapted to the plant is given as fifty-eight percent. Since fine tobacco lands are precisely those which farmers avoid clearing for other crops, this is probably too low rather than too high an estimate. II. Fertilizers [centered]

While it may be said that some of the finest qualities of tobacco are produced on lands poorly supplied with organic matter and