CLASSIFICATION AND MARKETS. 69 



Yellow Tobacco. Of yellow tobacco, a large quantity 

 is exported to Europe, ranging in quantity with the dif- 

 ferent districts, from one-third to one-half of the prod- 

 uct grown. The following grades are chiefly taken for 

 export: 



1. Cutters: Usually thin and bright, occupying 

 a position, as to grade, intermediate between a wrapper 

 and a lug. This grade contributes about one-fourth of 

 the amount exported. Used for cigarettes and smoking 

 tobacco. 



2. Bright, greenish yellow and lemon colored 

 stripping leaf, used for fillers and partly as an English 

 cutter. It is shipped both in leaf and in strips. All 

 this grade, for the most part, is exported, and makes 

 nearly half the quantity that goes abroad. It is used 

 for plug and plug cut. 



3. Leafy cutting lugs, three grades, which make 

 nearly one-fourth of the foreign shipments of yellow 

 tobacco. 



In addition to these grades, a very small per cent of 

 bright wrappers go abroad. 



African Shippers. These are usually divided into 

 three classes: 



1. Those which are suitable for the western coast of 

 Africa, embracing Liberia, Sierra Leone, Senegambia and 

 those French and Portugal possessions bordering on the 

 gulf of Guinea, known as the Guinea coast. The to- 

 bacco for these markets should be of long, dark leaf, 

 strong body, small tie, packed into hogsheads of small 

 size, and made to weigh about 1500 pounds gross. The 

 tobacco must be neatly handled. 



2. The tobacco suitable for the coast further south 

 should be of long leaf, medium to light color, fine fibers, 

 nearly of the same length of leaf as class one, and 

 handled neatly. The hogsheads should weigh 1450 

 pounds gross. 



