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attending its cultivation and its preparation for the 

 market, as well as the uncertainty of only an average 

 crop, are out of proportion, as a rule, to the average 

 profits arising therefrom. The cultivation of the plant 

 has consequently gradually become restricted chiefly to 

 those districts of the country where either the soil is 

 peculiarly adapted for the purpose, or where it is carried 

 on for the private use of the producer. 



In Bavaria, as is well known, tobacco is cultivated 

 very extensively, particularly in the Palatinate and in 

 Franconia, viz. the districts around Nuremberg and 

 Erlangen. The area of land in 1871 was 4721 hectares, 

 which produced 144,153 centners. In Saxony but little 

 tobacco is grown, the total area planted therewith in 1871 

 not having exceeded 6 hectares, upon which 130 centners 

 were produced. Although in parts of Wirtemberg the 

 soil and climate are said to be very favourable to the 

 growth of the plant, the area of land cultivated is, upon 

 the whole, a very limited one, and did not exceed 178 

 hectares. The yield of the harvest is given at 5571 

 centners. In the year 1858 the extent of production in 

 Wirtemberg is stated to have been four times as great as 

 it is at present. The Grand Duchy of Baden has at all 

 times been the chief tobacco-growing part of Germany, 

 and as far back as the end of the seventeenth century 

 special laws for regulating the cultivation, preparation, 

 and warehousing of this article were in force. The great 

 importance accordingly attaching to this branch of 

 agriculture and industry for so large a proportion of the 

 inhabitants of Baden, renders it but natural that any 

 project of increasing the tobacco tax should meet with 



