• Adulterations of tobacco, 267–70
• Afghanistan, tobacco in, 137
• African tobacco, 138
• After-cultivation, 54–60
• Albuminoids in tobacco, 256
• American tobacco, 210–22
• Amersfort tobacco, 6
• Ammonia in tobacco, 255
• Analyses of tobacco, 261
• —— —— —— plants, 22
• Area of nursery, 59
• —— to plant, 53
• Artificial heat for drying tobacco, 89, 91
• Ash of tobacco, 258
• Australian tobacco, 141
• Austro-Hungarian tobacco, 141

• Barrels for tobacco, 125, 127
• Best kind of tobacco to grow, 33
• Betun, 117
• Bibliography of tobacco, 276
• Big Frederic tobacco, 34, 37
• —— Orinoco tobacco, 35, 37
• Black soil for tobacco growing, 10
• Blue prior tobacco, 37
• —— stalk tobacco, 35
• —— vitriol for killing caterpillars, 58
• Books on tobacco, 276
• Bornean tobacco, 142
• Bourbon tobacco, 143
• Boxes for tobacco, 126
• Brazilian tobacco, 143–7
• British tobacco, 164–6
• Brittle stem tobacco, 35
• Building drying-sheds, 86, 90, 95
• Bulking tobacco, 121–5
• Bull tongue tobacco, 35

• Cake tobacco, 236
• Calabrian tobacco, 3
• Californian tobacco, 3
• Canary Island tobacco, 148
• Cases for tobacco, 129
• Caterpillars, destroying, 55–60
• Cellulose in tobacco, 257
• Central Asian tobacco, 3
• Chemical ingredients of tobacco soils, 9
• Chemistry of tobacco, 259–66
• Chinese tobacco, 148
• Chlorine compounds to be avoided in tobacco manures, 25
• Choosing sort of tobacco, 31–7
• Cigarettes, 246–8
• Cigars, 56

• Nature of tobacco, 253–66
• New Zealand tobacco, 177
• Nicaraguan tobacco, 177
• Nicotine, 253
• Nitrates for tobacco soils, 13
• Nitric acid in tobacco, 255
• Nurseries, 38–48
• ——, shelter for, 38
• ——, situation for, 38
• ——, soil for, 38
• Nursery, area of, 39

• Organic matter in tobacco soils, 8

• Packing tobacco, 125–33
• Paraguay tobacco, 178
• Pegging tobacco, 71
• Pennsylvania seed-leaf, 37
• Persian tobacco, 3, 178–91
• Philippine tobacco, 191
• Picking tobacco, 104–9
• Planting out, 50–4
• Plug tobacco, 236
• Pole-burn, 78
• Potash for tobacco growing, 11, 27
• Preparation of tobacco, 231–52
• Preparing field, 48–50
• —— seed-beds, 38, 41, 43, 44
• Pressing tobacco in casks, 128, 131, 133
• Priming, 62, 65
• Principles of manuring, 18–22
• Production of tobacco in Afghanistan, 137
• —— Africa, 138
• —— Australia, 141
• —— Austro-Hungary, 141
• —— Borneo, 142
• —— Bourbon, 143
• —— Brazil, 143–7
• —— Canary Islands, 148
• —— China, 148
• —— Cochin China, 149
• —— Costa Rica, 149
• —— Ecuador, 149
• —— Fiji, 150
• —— France, 150–6
• —— Germany, 156–64
• —— Great Britain, 164–6
• —— Greece, 166
• —— Holland, 166
• —— India, 167–76
• —— Italy, 124
• Wind shelter for tobacco, 10
• Wood-ashes as tobacco manure, 14
• Worms, destroying, 55–60

• Yellow prior tobacco, 37

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