CLASSIFICATION AND MARKETS. 55 



83,273,149 pounds; 1895, 89,945,565 pounds. Both 

 leaf and strips are taken, and a variable quantity is re- 

 exported. Among the requirements are about 40,000 

 hogsheads of Western tobacco, of which there are some 

 28,000 hogsheads of Western strips, and 10,000 hogs- 

 heads of dried leaf, and about 2,000 hogsheads of White 

 Burley. From 8,000 to 10,000 hogsheads of Virginia 

 and North Carolina leaf, and from 10,000 to 14,000 

 hogsheads of Virginia, North Carolina and East Ten- 

 nessee strips are also included in the demand for the 

 trade and consumption in the United Kingdom. Within 

 recent years the consumption of leaf tobacco has in- 

 creased in the English markets, under an arrangement 

 with the revenue department by which the manufac- 

 turer is allowed to return the stems into the hands of the 

 proper officer, for destruction or exportation. In some 

 forms of manufacture, the stem is compressed in the leaf 

 into a thin plate, and then split, so as to divide the leaf 

 into two parts. 



The Bird's-Eye cutter is the only type used exclu- 

 sively in the leaf in English consumption. It consists 

 of a very bright, smooth, thin and clean leaf, with as 

 little gum and oil as possible. The color of both the 

 upper and under sides of the leaf must be of uniform 

 and similar shades of bright color, and the stem must be 

 of a brightish brown color on the outside, and white on 

 the inside, or upper side, of the leaf. Each section into 

 which the stem is cut presents an appearance on the cut 

 surface of the eye of a bird, and hence its name. This 

 type, formerly grown only in the lower Green River dis- 

 trict of Kentucky, and in the Clarksville district, is now 

 largely grown in the Burley districts, and in Virginia 

 and North Carolina. 



Fine Roll wrapper is a bright red or full bright leaf, 

 of good breadth, thin and smooth in texture, almost 

 destitute of oil, resembling the leaf used by our domes- 



