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quote the mercantile prices for the different qualities, 

 because the name does not represent the quality ; and this 

 confusion tends greatly to the prejudice of the planter, 

 and the merchant ; and hinders attaining the perfection 

 after which we should strive. 



"We have shown that the practice of making a classifi- 

 cation of seven Injuriados must not be taken as absolute. 

 There are better modes of sorting in which a separation of 

 8, and even 9 Injuriados should be made, and others, and 

 by far the greater proportion, in which only 5 Injuriados 

 should be separated ; so that the quality which, in one 

 sorting, would appear under that of fifths — being the 

 lowest of the crop — would be equal to eighths, or ninths, 

 if picked more carefully ; and the fifths, in a sorting, 

 whose lowest class may be sevenths, is about equal in 

 quality to that of thirds of other pickings, whose lowest 

 class would be fifths, if both crops had produced equal 

 kinds of tobacco. 



" There is even more to confirm our opinion. Supposing 

 two crops equal in all respects, and that each planter 

 makes a separation of 7 Injuriados. This would not ensure 

 that the intrinsic value of each respective quality would 

 be equal ; for each Veguero has his own particular mode of 

 considering the different classes, and some make a much 

 more careful sorting than others. In the supposed case it 

 may happen, as it frequently does, that the Veguero A 

 will take from his crop — which we will suppose to be 

 one hundred packages — 2 of the first, 3 of the second, 5 of 

 the third, 8 of the fourth, 12 of the fifth, 30 of the sixth, 

 and 40 of the seventh ; whereas the Veguero B will take 

 from his, 4 of the first, 6 of the second, 10 of the third, 16 



