70 TOBACCO LEAF. 



3. The tobacco suitable for the more northern parts 

 of Africa should consist of a light or piebald leaf, not so 

 long as classes one and two, and packed in hogsheads of 

 medium size, weighing not more than 1450 pounds 



Tobacco for the African market is often packed in 

 boxes or quarter hogsheads, which will hold from 300 to 

 400 pounds gross, by hard prizing. Tobacco thus pre- 

 pared is more subject to atmospheric influences than 

 when prized in hogsheads. 



Most of the tobacco which finds its way to the African 

 markets is put up by rehandlers in this country, but 

 there is a fair proportion of leaf of suitable quality and 

 handling put up by farmers, which is taken usually by 

 Boston merchants, who send cargoes of various articles 

 to the African coast. It requires 3000 hogsheads to 

 supply the African demand for the tobacco grown in the 

 United States. 



Shippers for Mexico, South America and the West 

 Indies. The baling wrapper is a heavy leaf, twenty-eight 

 to thirty inches in length, of fair width, very lat and 

 oily, of heavy texture and of a very dark color. A nec- 

 essary requirement of this class is b that it should be 

 neatly tied in small bundles, strongly and carefully 

 packed in casks, and moderately pressed. It is put up 

 as a wrapper leaf in preparing stock for the trade of the 

 several markets named. It is taken from the hogshead, 

 after fermentation, and packed in bales weighing from 

 one hundred to two hundred pounds. These bales are 

 covered with a cloth. They are so prepared that two 

 bales may be balanced across the back of a pack mule, 

 for convenience of transportation over the mountainous 

 regions in the districts in which the tobacco is con- 

 sumed. 



Baling fillers are made of common, rich and heavy 

 leaf, and fine lugs of heavy body, having a full supply of 



