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very strong opposition amongst most classes of the Grand 

 Duchy. The most prominent tobacco-growing districts 

 of Baden are those of Carlsruhe, Mannheim, Heidelberg, 

 Badenburg, Schwitzingen, and Lahr; the quality of the 

 plant grown in these parts being a very inferior one. 

 The produce of the districts mentioned is therefore 

 applied chiefly to the manufacture of " cigar- wrappers," 

 and is exported in considerable quantities to Bremen, 

 Hamburg, Switzerland, Holland, and even to America, 

 for the use of the cigar-makers. The prices of the best 

 kinds of Baden tobacco are consequently also, on an 

 average, much higher than those realized by other 

 German growers. The area in Hesse was 979 hectares, 

 the chief district being around- the town of Darmstadt ; 

 the production was 31,311 centners. The most prominent 

 amongst the Thuringian States as regards tobacco pro- 

 duction, is the Duchy of Saxe-Menningen ; the land 

 cultivated in 1871 in all of them put together was 202 

 hectares, the yield of the harvest in that year having 

 been 4806 centners. In the two German states of 

 Mecklenburg, 6106 centners were raised from 165 hectares 

 of land. The most important district is that of Neu- 

 Brandenburg, in Mecklenburgh-Strelitz. Only a small 

 extent of land, viz. 69 hectares, is used for tobacco in the 

 Duchy of Brunswick, the same being situated near the 

 town of Helmstadt ; the amount raised was 2391 

 centners. 



In the recently acquired provinces of Alsace-Lorraine, 

 tobacco cultivation has been extensively carried on for 

 many years, more especially in the country around Stras- 

 burg, Miilhausen, Schirmeck, and Miinster, and to a 



