and the Tobacco flea beetle are minute beetles 

 which attack it. Mosaic disease, Frog-eye or 

 Leaf-spot are probably bacterial diseases. 



In addition, tobacco, particularly during the 

 curing process, is subject to pole-burn, pole- 

 sweat, or house-burn, stem-rot, white-vein, and 

 various forms of mould, all these being prob- 

 ably due to bacteria. 



For additional information see: 

 U. S. DEFT. OF AGRICULTURE. Farmers' Bulle- 

 tin, 120. 



HOWARD, L. 0. The principal insects affecting 

 the tobacco plant. Washington, D. C., 1900. 

 U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE. Bureau of 

 Entomology. Bulletin 65. 



SPECKLED OF SPOTTED CIGARS 

 Many smokers of cigars have the idea that 

 there is some special virtue in a cigar that 

 shows specks or spots of discoloration in the 

 leaf. As a matter of fact such spots have 

 nothing whatever to do with the quality of the 

 tobacco. The occurrence of such spots is ac- 

 counted for differently. Some say the spots 

 are due to certain bacteria which attack the 

 leaf either when growing or fermenting and 

 this most probably is the correct view. Others 

 say that the spots are due to rain drops which, 



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