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2. Uses and Classes of Tobacco 



In accordance with the use to which it is put tobacco 

 may roughly be divided into two great classes : ( 1 ) cigar 

 tobaccos, and (2) tobaccos for other lines of manufacture. 

 Each of these classes has several types or varieties. 



Cigar tobaccos. A cigar consists of three different 

 parts, wrapper, or the outer layer of tobacco leaves ; binder, 

 or the second layer ; and filler, or the central portion. Each 

 of these parts requires a different type of tobacco. The 

 tobacco in a single cigar may therefore come from three 

 widely separated regions. 



For example, the Connecticut valley and parts of Flori- 

 da and Georgia are the principal wrapper-leaf sections of 

 the United States. Wisconsin and Pennsylvania produce 

 chiefly a binder-leaf type. Certain districts in Pennsyl- 

 vania, Ohio and New York, and small areas in Florida, 

 Georgia and Texas grow the filler-leaf types. 



Three important varieties comprise most of the cigar 

 tobaccos grown in this country. These are: (1) the 

 Broadleaf, or Seedleaf, group, grown chiefly for wrapper 

 and binder purposes ; (2) the Havana Seed group, a wrap- 

 per and binder variety, though grown also for filler; and 

 (3) the Cuban group, grown principally in southern re- 

 gions for use as filler. 



Manufacturing tobacco. Kentucky and parts of ad- 

 joining states are the great manufacturing tobacco region 

 of the United States. Many different varieties are grown, 

 chief among which are White Burley, Maryland, Oronoca 

 and Pryor. 



These and other similar strains are also produced in 

 most states of the South. 



