Excerpt from Flue-Cured Tobacco in Canada: Growing Flue-Cured Tobacco in Ontario; Tobacco Soils, Rotations, Fertilizers; Co-Operative Experiments The mould. - Tho soil on which the seedlings are to be grown should be fertile and well supplied with vegetable matter in an advanced stage of decay. A large percentage of the failures in the production of plants, which the writer has observed, were due to the soil being too sandy and lacking in humus. Such a soil packs too tightly for the proper development of the seedlings; and. Too, the light-coloured saml apparently gives up its heat more quickly than a darker soil. And the growth of the plants is checked by a lack of heat. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.