The Tobacco Tiller A Tale Of The Kentucky Tobacco Fields PDF Download

Excerpt from The Tobacco Tiller: A Tale of the Kentucky Tobacco FieldsTobacco! Tobacco for the millions of the past! Tobacco for the millions of the present! Whence come the supplies for these? Whence come the supplies for these?For a time, Virginia supplied the world, but the culture of the weed spread with its use, until it came to be grown in many parts of the old world.The United States, however, produces more tobacco than any other country in the world, and of her great output, - Kentucky, pos sessed of the soil combined with conditions of climate that makes good tobacco in greater measure than any other of the States, raises more than one-third.Within Kentucky's borders, friend, the number of the agricultural folk who depend for daily bread on crops of tobacco, is great. Every year's August sees more than three hundred thousand of Kentucky's rich acres.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.