Excerpt from White Burley Tobacco: Experiments and Cultural Directions In the spring of 1913 an appropriation was made by the West Virginia Legislature to the Experiment Station, for the purpose of conducting experiments with tobacco. Along with this appropriation, the Bureau of Plant Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture furnished additional funds for co-operative tobacco work and the junior writer of this bulletin was appointed field agent in charge of tobacco investigations. This tobacco work was started late in the spring of 1913 and consisted of three fertilizer experiments, located at Milton, Hurricane and West Hamlin, and a variety test located at Milton. Previous to this time, very little Work had ever been done with tobacco by the West A Virginia Experiment Station. While the tobacco-producing area of West Virginia is limited, yet the total value of the crop amounts to more than a half-million dollars. These figures represent the amount of tobacco that was raised in this state and marketed through the Huntington tobacco warehouse. The tobacco growers in counties of Ohio and Kentucky adjoining the Huntington district also market tobacco in Huntington, amounting to about the same number of pounds as that produced in this state, although the value of it is less since the quality is not so good as the tobacco raised in West Virginia. Their average price per hundred pounds is less than that received by West Virginia growers for each year indicated above. 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.