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present general demand for the article continues there 

 will be neither lack of capital nor labour, so long as either 

 can contribute to an increase in its production, and it 

 would seem to be more a question as to the extent of 

 acreage in Sumatra adapted for its cultivation, as only 

 once in four or five years a crop can be raised on the 

 same soil without danger of producing a very inferior 

 quality of tobacco." 



Turkey. — The Turkish empire has long been known 

 as producing some of the finest tobaccos in the world. 

 In the sanjac of Drama, which forms the vice-consular 

 district of Cavalla, tobacco is the staple article of produc- 

 tion and industry, and some 75,000 acres were devoted 

 to its culture in 1873. The whole crop of 1871 was 

 reckoned at 11,200,000 lb., the exports having been 

 7,600,000 lb., value 37,825Z. The tobacco of this district, 

 though derived entirely from one species, is divided into 

 two classes, known as Drama and Yenidji. The former 

 leaf is larger, stouter, and more potent, and generally of 

 deep reddish-brown colour ; the latter is smaller, slighter, 

 less narcotic, with a peculiarly delicate aroma, and the 

 best is of a rich yellow colour, whence its name " golden- 

 leaf." The Drama kind is principally grown in the 

 western portion of the district, and is the class supplied 

 to European markets. The differences in the two kinds 

 seem to be due solely to the soil. 



The plantations in the Drama district proper occuiDy 

 both plain and hill-side. The produce of the former is 

 much the more considerable, and superior. The best 

 leaves, distinguished by a stronger and more substantial 

 texture, and a dark-red hue, go to Constantinople; the 



