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face of a hemispherical iron vessel, the pulverized tobacco 

 being discharged through an opening in the bottom, 

 like that of a fixed wash basin. The snuff passes from 

 the pulverizers to bolting cloths, not unlike those used 

 for bolting flour. After it is bolted, the process of man- 

 ufacture is completed. The snuff is then, by a machine, 

 packed automatically in six-ounce bottles made for the 

 purpose, or in four-ounce tin cans, and put in wooden 

 boxes holding eighteen pounds or less, for shipping. 

 The largest market for this snuff is Germany. It is 

 used extensively, especially by the negroes, and to a 

 lesser extent by white people, in Louisiana, Mississippi, 

 Arkansas, Texas and the Indian Territory. Smaller 

 quantities are used in all the States. 



Maccaboy snuff is used, both for inhaling and the 

 mouth. It is highly perfumed, the attar of roses being 

 the chief ingredient. It is consumed largely in New 

 England. Until recently, only Virginia tobacco was 

 employed in its manufacture, bat now about an equal 

 quantity of Tennessee, or Kentucky, and Virginia is used, 

 and it consists of a heavy bodied leaf of a waxen charac- 

 ter. The snuff is darkened by being scorched to some ex- 

 tent, and by being subjected to treatment by dark sauces. 



Sweet snuff is made, like Scotch snuff, by treating 

 the leaves of tobacco with some preparation of licorice 

 before the snuff is made. It is used exclusively for dip- 

 ping, and finds the greatest number of consumers in the 

 Carolinas. 



Salting snuff is made of the same character of to- 

 bacco as Scotch snuff, but it is salted. It is also used 

 for the mouth. 



Rappee snuff is made exclusively from Virginia 

 tobacco. It is manufactured principally in France, the 

 tobacco for that purpose being imported by the regie 

 contractors. Years ago, when the dark crop of tobacco 

 was much larger than it is now, the French government 



