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Show Tobacco Impoverishes 8oti. It has been calculated that a ton ol tobacco vlthdraws more than a hundredweight hun-dredweight of mineral consotuents from un acre of land. This would appear ap-pear to bo an astounding waste of material, ma-terial, which tuuHt be of enormous value to the soil, considering thnt 75 per cent consists of cnlclum and potas-r potas-r ulurn salts and 15 per cent of mag-j mag-j loeslur., and sodium salts. Including C iiearl;w6 per cent of the essential con-iUUient con-iUUient to all plants phosphoric acll |