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N Turner Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America (McGill-Queens Press, Montreal, Canada, 2014)
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Old men, and women, and children are therefore constantly employed going over a part of the field every day, and carefully examining the plants leaf by leaf till the insects are completely exterminated."[Back to Main Text] Footnote 78: Many of the Virginians let the thumb nail grow long, and harden it in the candle, for this purpose: not for the use of gouging out people's eyes, as some have thought fit to insinuate.[Back to Main Text] Footnote 79: Second crop, or Volunteer tobacco.[Back to Main Text] Footnote 80: The inner bark of the lime-tree.[Back to Main Text] Footnote 81: Florida tobacco is noted for the white rust found on the leaves.[Back to Main Text] Footnote 82: Liancourt says of the selection of seed plants in Virginia:"The seed for the next year is obtained from forty to fifty stalks per acre, which the cultivator lets run up as high as they will grow, without bruising their heads."[Back to Main Text] Footnote 83: Tobacco is not allowed to pass from one state into another without paying a certain duty.[Back to Main Text] Footnote 84: The amount in 1872, was 172,000.[Back to Main Text] Footnote 85: Thirty-five cents a pound, gold.[Back to Main Text] End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Tobacco
