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Title: An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the United States of America, and of the European settlements in America and the West-Indies
Year: 1796 (1790s)
Authors: Winterbotham, William 1763-1829
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: New York : Printed by Tiebout and O'Brien, for John Reid
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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head after it is prized. The tobacco, when ripe, changesits colour and looks greyilh ; the leaf feels thick, and if prelfcdbetween the finger and thumb will ealily crack ; but experi-ence alone can enable a pcrlon to judge when tobacco is fullyripe. We think the beft time to cut totiacco is the afternoon,■when the iun has not power to burn it, but only caules theleaves to be iupplc, that they may be handled without bicakhig •it fliould then remain on tne g-round ail night ; the next morn-ing, after the dew is off, and before tiie iun has power to burnit, it muft be picked up, but tlicrc Ihould be no appearanceof rain the preceding night ; for Ihould a heavy rain fail uponthe tobacco, when lying on the ground, it wjU injure it greatly,by filling it with grit, aud perhaps bruiiing it. Tobacco isindeed generally cut in- the morning, but in this cafe U muft be■watched Very narrowly, and pickctl up, aud put m Iniaii heaps OJ ijcl 03 r.s:3ffj ad ihw ■ ^! byri Aju\ ;3d (J. :Jorj to V
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TO EUROPEAN SETTLERS. 427 oa the ground, before it begins to burn ; for if it be rcorchcdby the fun it is good for nothing. There are difivrent methods taken in tlie inanagcment of to-fcacco immediately after being cut, and lufficiently killed bythe lun for handling ; lome hang upon fences until it is near-ly half-cured before they carry it to hang up in houies built forthe purpoie ; but tliis mode wc cannot approve of, as the leavesarc too much expoled to the fun, and are apt to be injured. Amuch better method is, to have Icafiolds made dole to the houfeintended to cure the tobacco in ; and having a fufficient numberof tabacco fticks, of about four feet and a half long, aud an inchthick, to bung in the tobacco from the field, and putting from.ten to fourteen or fifteen plants upon a (lick, tu fix the ilicks up^©n this Icafifold, about nine inches one from another. There thetobacco fhould remain until the leaves turn yellow. By thismethod the lun is prevented from coming to the leave

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