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eleven classes. The consumer, too, will have the advan- 

 tage of being able to procure cigars manufactured com- 

 pletely of the quality which he prefers, and the contents 

 of each box, or each set of boxes, will be all equal both in 

 flavour and colour, which, under the present system, it is 

 difficult to find. The classes will be styled : — 



ilst class Sound crown. 

 2nd „ Broken „ 

 3rd „ Stuffing „ 

 Ilst class Sound seconds. 

 2nd „ Broken ,, 

 3rd „ Stuffing „ 

 Ilst class Sound thirds. 

 2nd „ Broken „ 

 3rd „ Stuffing „ 

 Fourth quality, 1st and 2nd Suckers and sprouts. 



"It is scarcely necessary to add that, according to the 

 preceding system of sorting, only 3 divisions, cases, or 

 rooms, with yagiias, will be required for depositing the 

 respective qualities which the workmen may be assorting, 

 until sufficient quantity has been collected in each to com- 

 mence the seasoning or painting, hetunieo, enmannillado, or 

 engavillado, manojo, and enterciadura. 



" In all kinds of sortings, the fragments of broken leaves, 

 too small to use for cigars, should be collected, sponged, 

 and with them packages made of picadura. This should 

 be preserved, and the following year it will be useful for 

 making hetun. Wash the tobacco, or rather sponge it, with 

 a solution made from these pieces of good leaves, and not 

 with a solution made from stalks and trash of new tobacco, 

 as some do. The wash (hetun) has the same effect on 



