76 TOBACCO LEAF. 



The Pipe-Smoking Tobacco now most highly prized, 

 and in greatest demand, is made mainly from the bright 

 lugs of the yellow-tobacco districts. These lugs are of 

 three sub-grades, viz : Common or sand lugs ; medium 

 or smooth lugs, and bright or wrapping lugs. 



A mixture of heavier lugs, or dark, low leaf, is 

 made when greater strength is required in the tobacco. 

 White Burley lugs, which are usually fine and bright, 

 are much used for making granulated pipe-smoking to- 

 bacco. These lugs are usually of sweet flavor, thin in 

 leaf, light or yellowish-brown in color, inclined to be 

 trashy and chaffy, and, when mixed with the Carolina 

 and Virginia bright lugs, make the very highest grade of 

 smoking tobacco for pipes. It is sweet to the taste, 

 mild in the effects, and exceedingly popular with per- 

 sons of sedentary habits. A strong pipe-smoking to- 

 bacco is preferred by persons who live an active, out- 

 door life. Some of the Burley lugs, especially those 

 that are bright in color and thin of leaf, are granulated, 

 and form good stock for the manufacture of cigarettes. 



Perique tobacco, grown exclusively in Louisiana by 

 the descendants of the Arcadians, is peculiar in the 

 methods used in its curing and its preparation for mar- 

 ket. It emits a highly spirituous odor, much liked by 

 some smokers. While but few pipe smokers prefer the 

 Perique in its unadulterated state, a suitable mixture of 

 it with other tobacco makes a popular brand for pipe 

 smoking. The total amount of Perique grown now 

 reaches 175,000 pounds per annum, according to the 

 authority of S. Hershein & Co., who handle the entire 

 product. This is said to be twice as much as there is 

 any demand for. The production has extended and 

 largely increased during the past few years. Common 

 lugs from the various tobacco districts constitute the 

 lower grades of many types. These lugs are trashy, 

 earth-burned, deficient in body and weight of leaf, of 



