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Breslau, Ratibor, and Oels. The principal tobacco-growing 

 province of Prussia is Brandenburg, and here again, particu- 

 larly the part of the government district of Potsdam, which 

 contains the towns of Neustadt, Eberswalde and Prenzlau. 

 Besides the districts mentioned, tobacco is grown largely in 

 that of Frankfort-on-the Oder. In the province of Saxony 

 the chief districts are those of Stendal, Salzwedel, Nordhausen, 

 Burg, arid Wittenburg. Hanover, like the other western 

 provinces of the kingdom, produces a superior quality of 

 tobacco to that raised in the eastern parts of Prussia the 

 most important district is that of Munden. The chief 

 tobacco-growing districts of Hesse-^NTossau are situated near 

 the towns of Cassel and Hanau. In Rhenish Prussia the 

 plant is cultivated, particularly in the neighborhood of Cleve, 

 Emmerich, Coblenz, Creuznach, and Saarbruck ; the dis- 

 tricts first mentioned produce a very superior quality. The 

 production of tobacco in Westphalia is extremely small, while 

 in the province of Schleswig-Holstein the plant is not culti- 

 vated at all. In the account given it will be seen that the 

 tobacco plant holds an important place among the products 

 of Prussia, and although not as extensively cultivated as 

 formerly, has not been entirely driven from the soil by other 

 products which yield a larger profit to the producer. The 

 plant is cultivated in other parts of Germany, especially in 

 Bavaria, where large quantities of tobacco are grown, par- 

 ticularly so in the Bavarian Palatinate and in Franconia (viz., 

 the districts around Nuremberg and Erlangen). In the 

 Kingdom of Saxony but little tobacco is raised, as is also the 

 case in Wurtemberg, although the soil and climate in parts 

 of this state are said to be very favorable to the growth of 

 the tobacco plant ; the area of land cultivated is upon the 

 whole, a very limited one, and in 1871 did not exceed 178.2 

 hectares. The Grand Duchy of Baden has at all times been 

 the chief tobacco-growing part of Germany ; as far back as 

 the end of the Seventeenth Century, special laws for regula- 

 tion of the cultivation, preparation, and warehousing of this 

 article were in force. The most prominent tobacco-growing 

 districts of Baden are those of Carlsruhe, Mannheim, Heidel- 

 burg, Badenburg, Schwetzingen, and Lahr ; the quality of 

 the plant grown in those parts being a very superior one 

 (among the various kinds of German tobacco). The produce 

 of the districts mentioned is therefore applied chiefly in the 

 manufacture of cigar wrappers, and is exported in consider- 

 able quantities to Bremen, Hamburg, Switzerland, Holland, 

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