Excerpt from The New England Tobacco Grower, 1904, Vol. 5: March, 1904 To The New England Tobacco Grower: Is the present method of sorting and sizing tobacco any improvement on the old fashioned way of three or tour sorts? Is not the taking away of the heavier weight or darker leaves from the lighter weight by the present system of using the sizing box: from 14 to 28 inches, and then casing the different grades and sizes in cases by themselves more responsible for the goods going wrong or gray, both in the forced or natural sweat, than the crop of tobacco itself 7 In other words are not the packers asking something from the tobacco that by the veny nature of the plant is contrary to its natural law? 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.