TO13ACCO 153 



1854 4 2 05 l8 $4 2047 



1864 . . . 2804 1885 . . . 6804 



1874 4542 1895 . 11,382 



1902 ..... 9161 



The export of 1874 was the most valuable of these, 

 being worth 6,954,000 pesos. Philippine tobacco is very 

 largely made into cigars and cigarettes. 



The foremost tobacco-raising province, both in quan- 

 tity and quality, is Isabela. In the amount produced, it 

 is followed by Union, Cagayan, Cebu, Pangasinan, and 

 Ilocos Norte. The raising of tobacco was prohibited in 

 some parts of the Islands by the Spanish government. 

 This furnished a local market, and made it easier to 

 keep up the grade of the tobacco. 



CONDITIONS OF GROWTH 



Heat. Tobacco is like the potato and maize in being 

 a tropical plant which will grow in a large part of the 

 temperate zones. This is not because the plant endures 

 low temperatures, for frost is fatal to it, but because it 

 can grow and mature its fruit in the few months of the 

 Northern summer. Coffee endures a lower temperature 

 than any of these plants, but can be cultivated only in 

 the tropics. Tobacco grows as far north as Minnesota, 

 and even in Canada and in Sweden. 



Moisture. A fine quality of tobacco cannot be pro- 

 duced where the air is very drv. On the other hand, 



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there must be no very heavy rain while the leaves are 

 maturing, or while they are being dried. Heavy rain 



