Mr.Culp told me that he had taken four crops of Havana in one year from the same field, and I saw considerable fields of third crop just cut or standing; but in some cases the frost had caught this.

"If the soil is in perfect order, we can here make a crop of Havana in forty days from the planting," said he.
One man can prepare and take care of ten acres here, keeping it in good order.

For planting and cutting, of course, an extra force is used.

One man can set out or plant three thousand plants in a day of Havana; of the other kinds from fifteen hundred to two thousand.
The tobacco is cut with a hatchet; if it is Havana, the toppers usually go just ahead of the cutters in the field, or they may be a day ahead.
Florida is topped ten days or two weeks before cutting.

You must remember that after April they have no rain here, so that all field work goes on without interruption from the weather, and crops can be exposed in the field as a planter would not dare do in the East.