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Brazilian and Felix found ready buyers, owing to the last 

 good crop, the prices rising towards the close of the year. 

 The stock of Porto Eico was realized at a low figure. In 

 seed-leaf Pennsylvania plants were chiefly imported, and, 

 being of a good quality, were for the most part promptly 

 disposed of. Much inclination was shown for Turkish 

 tobacco, and the same remark applies to business in 

 Paraguay, of which the supplies might have been greater. 

 Chinese tobacco, very brisk at first on account of its fine 

 quality, later on fell off again considerably. 



The value of the tobacco consumed in Germany in 1878 

 is calculated to have been 353 million marks, or 17,650,OOOZ. 

 sterling, the total return to the revenue being 26,383,966 

 marks, or 1,319,198Z. The quantity consumed in that 

 empire in the year is stated at 2,196,000 cwt., or rather 

 more than 100,000 tons. Of this quantity 582,600 cwt., 

 or upwards of 29,000 tons, were consumed in the form of 

 cigars. Beckoning a hundred cigars to a pound in weight, 

 the number of cigars consumed in Germany in 1878 would 

 be upwards of seven thousand millions, which would give 

 two cigars a day all the year round to ten million smokers. 

 But besides cigars the Germans smoked in the year 

 1,327,200 cwt., or upwards of 60,000 tons of tobacco more 

 or less manufactured. In the form of snuff they took 

 160,600 cwt., or 8000 tons, in the course of the year, while 

 in. the way of chewing-tobacco they limited themselves to 

 the moderate quantity of 14,200 cwt., or about 700 tons. 

 Eather more than one-third of the total weight of tobacco 

 consumed was grown within the limits of Germany, the 

 quantity so produced in 1878 being 596,776 cwt., while 

 the imports amounted to 1,768,855 cwt. of tobacco leaves, 



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