In favorable localities this was considerably exceeded, he said.

For chewing-tobacco, the cut plant is piled but once.
For four hundred acres of tobacco, about one hundred and twenty-five Chinese were employed in cutting and curing.

After planting and up to the cutting season they had but fifty men employed.

The Chinese receive one dollar a day and board themselves, living an apparently jolly life in shanties near the fields.
They get their Havana seed from Cuba.

The Patent Office seed did not do well.