16 TOBACCO PRODUCTION IN THE UNITED STATES. 



Bird's-eye cutting leaf. 

 Brown roll wrapper. 

 Spinning leaf. 

 Shag a heavy cutter. 

 Plug wrapper. 



CLASS III. EXPORT TOBACCO. 

 English shipper*. 



Navy leaf. 

 Irish filler. 

 Scotch Elder. 



Scotch and Irish spinners. 



Strips used for same purposes as above. 



Plug fillers. 



Continental shipper*. 



French Regie A, B, and C. 

 Italian Regie A, B, and C. 

 Austrian Regie. 

 Spanish Regie. 

 Snuff-leaf and lugs. 

 Germany : 



German saucer. 



German spinner. 



Ohio, Maryland, and West Virginia spangled. 



Switzerland: 



Swiss wrappers. 



Swiss fillers. 

 Holland: 



Dutch saucer. 

 Belgium : 



Belgian cutter. 

 Denmark, Norway, and Sweden: 



Heavy Kentucky and Tennessee type* 



Smokers fat lugs. 



African shippers. 



Liverpool African. 11 Gibraltar African. 



Boston African. 



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 Mexico, South America, and West Indies. 



Baling wrapper. || Baling filler. 



CLASS I. CIGAE AND SMOKING TOBACCO. 



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SEED-LEAF AND HAVANA SEED. 



CONNECTICUT SEED-LEAF. This includes both the seed-leaf and the Havana seed. The seed-leaf of Connecticut 

 valley is a very large, fine-flbered, light-colored leaf, sweetish to the taste, soft, and silky, and when light tobacco 

 was fashionable it outstripped all rivals. It burns with a solid, yellowish ash, a little reduced from the original size, 

 the ash having a beautifully granulated or oolitic surface. Havana seed, grown from seed acclimated for four years, 

 has a thin leaf, flue in texture and delicate in flavor, and very glossy and silky. The seed-leaf in Housatonic valley 

 grows darker in color and has more body than that grown in Connecticut valley. It burns well, and is stronger 

 than the Connecticut-valley tobacco, having a larger content of nicotine. Altogether, this is probably the most 

 valuable seed-leaf grown. The whole product of Connecticut sweats well, that in Ilousatonic valley coming out of 

 that process greatly improved in color, having a very dark chestnut-brown hue. This tobacco burns probably better 

 than any other seed-leaf, but not with so white an ash as many other kinds. The soils are abundantly supplied with 

 salts whose base is potash, which renders the carbon in burning porous, and causes it to burn well. Connecticut seed- 

 leaf will make five thousand cigar wrappers to the one hundred pounds. 



NEW ENGLAND SEED-LEAF is the name given to the product of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont. 

 It differs from the growth of Connecticut in being coarser in texture and heavier in body, and therefore is not so- 

 well suited for wrappers as the Connecticut Seed-Leaf. It is deficient in oily substance, and does not sweat to a 

 good rich color; nor are the burning qualities so good. The ash is not so firm or light, but appears to be more 

 humid. A large proportion of the crop grown in the last-named states is of the variety known as Havana seed,, 

 which, though not so large, makes far better fillers for cigars than the seed-leaf varieties. 



PENNSYLVANIA SEED-LEAF is of a dark-brown color, has a rich leaf, and gives from six to eight thousand 

 wrappers to the hundred pounds. The flavor is not so good as that of Connecticut Seed-Leaf, and it has an acrid 

 taste, leaving a disagreeable bitter in the mouth after smoking. It sweats to a beautiful brown color, and burns 

 with a white ash, which, however, splits and falls like suowflakes; is very oily and elastic, strong and smooth, 

 and is in great demand by cigar-makers. It rarely suffers injury from sweating, and its strength of tissue enables- 

 it to bear the strain required in wrapping cigars. 



NEW YORK SEED-LEAF. This type does not rank as high as those of Pennsylvania and Connecticut. The 

 flavor is excellent, and some of the very best wrappers are made from Wilson's hybrid and one or two other 

 varieties. It burns compactly, with a white ash, except when raised on swamp muck or heavy clay soils, when it 

 is liable to burn black and to curl and roll in burning. This defect in a portion of the crop has kept the standard 

 low. Considerable quantities are exported to Bremen, and some to other foreign markets. The product shrinks 

 about 10 per cent, in sweating. Two types are recognized in New York: Big Flats and Onondaga. The first is 

 of a large growth, is at times very popular, and stands sweating well. Onondaga is short, very substantial, and 

 makes excellent fillers. 



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