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only abont 2000 hogsheads of Virginia tobacco being 

 found suitable in character and price. The order is 

 generally made for one-third of leaf of low grade and 

 two-thirds lugs. The tobacco is classified into A's, B's 

 and C's. Most all of it is used for smoking, the better 

 grades for wrappers, binders and fillers in the manufac- 

 ture of cigars, and the lower grades are granulated and 

 used for the manufacture of cigarettes and a moderate 

 amount in snuff. The tobacco taken for Gibraltar is 

 not embraced in the following statement: The quantity 

 taken annually is from 15,000 to 18,000 hogsheads. 

 There were 13,865,549 pounds of the tobacco of the 

 United States exported to Spain in 1891; 22,862,875 

 pounds in 1992; 12,611,810 pounds in 1893; 30,054,113 

 pounds in 1894; and 26,262,432 pounds in 1895. 



German Types. German Saucer is a sweet, fair- 

 bodied leaf of fine fiber and stem, gummy, without fat- 

 ness, and either of a clear, cherry red in color, or mot- 

 tled with yellow, technically called piebald. The sur- 

 face is gummy, the leaf of good length, with consider- 

 able weight of body. It is prepared for consumption in 

 Germany by treating it with sweet sauces of a peculiar 

 flavor and character. The fiber must be yellow after 

 being treated with these sauces, and the leaf black. It 

 is supplied mainly from Virginia, though some excellent 

 tobacco for this purpose is grown in the heavy-tobacco 

 districts of Tennessee and Kentucky. 



German Spinner consists of a very heavy-bodied leaf, 

 from twenty-four to twenty-six inches long, full in 

 width, of fine stem and fiber, very oily and fat, so that 

 it will come out of the process of fermentation supple 

 and strong, tough and elastic in texture, and of a very 

 deep dark-brown color. This type is used in Germany 

 and the north of Europe for spinning into strand. It is 

 supplied chiefly from the Clarksville district and in part 

 from the Green River districts of Kentucky. It is this 



