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TOBACCO LEAF. 



ers in the workman's drawer, together with refuse left 

 from the fillers that were too short to be used as such, 

 and the tucks that are cut off from the cigar in measur- 

 ing its length, are dried and run through a sieve, and 

 thus made into scraps, of which the cheapest or scrap 

 cigars are made, these siftings being used as filling. 

 They are also used to manufacture cigarettes. These 

 scraps are, in turn, run through a finer sieve, and the 

 comparatively very small amount of dust that runs 

 through, which consists of about five per cent of the 

 whole amount of tobacco used, is employed for snuff, or 

 sold for fertilizing purposes. 



