Excerpt from Field Operations of the Division of Soils, 1899 From the time the tobacco leaf is gathered in the field until the manufacture of the cigar and even afterwards a series of highly inter esting changes take place in the leaf, as a result of which the charac ters of the finished leaf are developed and fixed. There are three stages in these changes, viz, (1) the curing process; (2) the sweating, or fermentation; and (3) the cold sweat, after-fermentation, or aging, as it Is variously called. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.