exceed 80 degrees of temperature, immediately unpack and re-hang the whole, waiting its condition as before explained, before it is again put into the sweating bin.  Should the degree of heat be below that stated, it may remain for weeks or until the heat has subsided.  I have generally removed it from the sweating process in about fourteen or twenty days, sometimes considerably longer, regulating that act by the odor and color of the leaf.  If, however, it appears to be attaining a very dark brown color and its heat not subsided, it should be taken out and closely pressed into large cases or casks, when it will again attain a gentle heat called the “second sweating,” as is invariably the case with the hogsheads of the American leaf tobacco:  this again improves its quality.  Here the grower’s operations terminate.

It may be necessary to remark, that how skilful and experienced soever the grower may be, it is hardly possible for him to produce a good article upon a small scale; for with a less quantity than one ton to place in the sweating bin at a time, the requisite heat to insure success will not be generated.  I would further observe, that the practice of the colonists in growing what they term a “second crop” is most injurious to their interests, their lands, and the quality and character of the colonial tobacco.  The American planter never attempts it.  I would therefore strongly recommend its discontinuance, and also never to crop one piece of land with tobacco more than two or three years in succession.  The Americans rarely take more than two crops unless the land be new; after which they sow it down with grasses, in which state it remains for two or three years until it is again planted with tobacco.  I would recommend this plan to the growers.

The character of the American tobacco has been greatly advanced in the mercantile world by an ordinance regulating that source of national wealth.  The planters are thereby obligated to deposit their crops in warehouses, over which sworn inspectors preside, who rigidly examine every hogshead, and if found to be of mercantile quality, grant the owner a certificate, by which instrument only he sells his produce.  The purchaser is hereby safe in buying these certificates.  The tobacco to which they refer is delivered to the holder on presentation to the inspector.  I mention this not as applicable here at present, but it most probably may hereafter.

When the colony is suffering severely for the want of labor, it may by some be deemed inopportune in offering remarks upon this article of commerce.  To such dissentients I will remark, that a great portion of the work can be performed by women and children.  A moiety of our anticipated increase of population will be available for this hitherto mismanaged source of wealth.  At present the quantity grown in the colony is equal to three-fourths of its consumption, and which production is of