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bales average in weight about forty oques (110 English pounds). 

 The covering of the bales is a sort of netting made by the 

 peasants from goat's hair ; it is elastic and of great strength. 

 Yamberry says of packing tobacco in European Turkey : 



" The tobacco is packed in small packets (bog tche\ and only 

 after it has lain for years in the warehouses of the tobacco mer- 

 chants, is it honored by the connoisseurs of Stamboul with 

 the title of * Aala Gobeck.' This sort of finely-cut tobacco 

 resembling the finest silk, is held in equally high estimation 

 in the palaces of the Grand Seignior, in the seraglio, and in 

 the divan of the sublime Porte, where the privy council 

 debate the most important affairs of the empire, under the 

 soothing influence of its aromatic vapors." 



In St. Domingo and the United States of Colombia, South 

 America, the bales are called Serous, and in Holland and 

 Germany, Packages. Tobacco is sent to market in bales of 

 various sizes and made of various materials. In Cuba, the 

 tobacco is bound with palm leaves. In South America it is 

 packed in ox hides. From the East it comes in earners 

 hair sacks or " netting made from goat's hair," while from 

 Persia, tobacco is exported in sacks of strong cloth. Manilla 

 tobacco is shipped in bales containing four hundred pounds 

 net. It is covered first with bass and then with sacking, 



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made of Indian grass tied around with ratan. Each bale con- 

 tains a printed statement, of which the following is a copy : 



PKOYIXCIA DE CAGAYAN, 



PAKTIDO DE CITA. Cosecho, de 186 . 



Clas de conteine 40 manos de tabaco 



aforado por la junta de aforo y enfardelado 

 por -el que subscribe. Tuguegarao de 

 de 186 . 



El Golernadorcillo caudillo. V. B. 



Vicente Lasan. El Interventor de aforo. 



The tobacco plant while growing is easily affected by a 

 wet season, while it is also liable to injury by the opposite 

 extreme of heat or drought. If a drought occurs soon 



