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or flavour. It also applies to the method of curing, such 

 as sun, air or flue curing. Grades represent the different 

 qualities of a type, and vary much in the several types. 

 The classification of American tobacco is threefold, viz. 

 domestic cigar tobacco and "smokers," chewing- tobacco, 

 export tobacco. The domestic tobacco trade comprises 

 the various kinds of seed-leaf of Connecticut, New 

 England, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Illinois, New York, 

 Florida and Ohio, as well as the sorts known as White 

 Burley " lugs," fine-fibred wrappers, Indiana kite foot, and 

 American-grown Havana. In the chewing class are 

 included the fine-cut and the plug fillers, principally of 

 the White Burley type from Kentucky, while under the 

 head of export tobacco are the Virginian bird's-eye cutting 

 leaf, and the spinning fillers or shag. It is curious to 

 notice how each market for export tobacco differs in its 

 requirements. The " closed " markets, or those in which 

 the tobacco trade is a monopoly of the Government, are 

 France, Italy, Austria and Spain. The French " Eegie " 

 is supplied by wrappers, binders and fillers from Ken- 

 tucky, Maryland and Ohio ; the Italian Eegie from 

 Kentucky and Virginia ; the Austrian Eegie by " strips " 

 from the same States, and the Spanish Eegie by common 

 " lugs." The open markets are Germany, to which are 

 sent the tobaccos known as German saucer and spinners ; 

 Ohio and Maryland, spangled cigar-wrappers and 

 " smokers " fat lugs ; Switzerland, which is supplied with 

 Virginian or Western wrappers and fillers ; Holland, with 

 Dutch saucer (a mottled Virginia, Kentucky or Tennessee 

 leaf) ; Belgium, with Belgian cutter (a light, yellowish- 

 brown leaf, well fired) ; Norway and Sweden, with heavy 



