50 TOBACCO LEAF. 



Fine-flbered Clarksville wrappers. 

 Indiana Kite-Foot. 

 Little Dutch, of Ohio. 



Going into a more minute description of the various 

 members of the different classes, we begin with 

 CLASS I. 



CHEWING TOBACCO. 



Fine Cut and Plug Fillers. White Burley is the 

 product of a new variety which originated in Brown 

 county, Ohio, in 1864, as has been already described. 

 There are two sub-types now produced from the White 

 Burley : 



1. A thin, chaffy leaf, almost destitute of gum 

 and oils. This is used for manufacturing fine-cut 

 tobacco. 



2. A heavier leaf, with more body and more gum, 

 used for plug fillers, and generally called, in the com- 

 mercial world, Red Burley. This sub-type is soft, elas- 

 tic, spongy, with a large capacity for absorbing the sauces 

 with which it is treated in the process of manufacture. 

 It has about three per cent of nicotine, which is about 

 half the quantity contained in the heavy-shipping to- 

 bacco. It will absorb, without dripping, two and a half 

 times its weight of water. It is not naturally so sweet 

 as the flue and sun cured tobacco of Virginia, or the 

 air-cured product of Missouri. The fine-cut Mason 

 county tobacco has less gum than any other tobacco 

 grown in the Burley district. 



The Red Burley fillers are not so bright in color as 

 the White Burley cutting leaf, but they have a charac- 

 teristic cinnamon color. 



The Virginia sun and air cured fillers, which are 

 chiefly grown in the counties of Caroline, Hanover, 

 Louisa, Spottsylvania and Fluvanna, in Virginia, consist 

 of a leaf of medium size, light brown in color, very 

 sweet and fragrant, with u fair proportion of gum and 



