18 TOBACCO PRODUCTION IN THE UNITED STATES. 



thaii the better grades of the types from which it comes. By a due admixture of colors and strength of leaf 

 many brands of smoking-tobacco are made, as bright and dark, brown and red, spangled and yellow, mild and 

 strong. Some air-cured lugs of this sub-class are granulated for cigarettes, the stock being furnished from light, 

 thin products from Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Eastern Ohio, and Maryland. The lugs 

 selected for this purpose are as light in color as possible. 



STOGIE WRAPPERS AND FILLERS. For stogie wrappers a short western leaf of full breadth and light bod,y, 

 tine fiber, and uniformly dark color is selected. To a very small extent a red or cinnamon color is required. It 

 must be air-cured or entirely free from any flavor imparted by fire, and it is necessary that it shall have passed 

 through the sweat and become somewhat soured in flavor. This particular style of leaf is used at Pittsburgh and 

 at Wheeling very largely at the latter point for wrappers in the manufacture of a specific class of common cigars, 

 technically called stogie cigars. A stogie filler consists of a leaf of the same quality as the wrapper, but is of 

 lower grade, too narrow or otherwise unfitted for wrappers. What are technically called "self- workers" are largely 

 used in this trade. They consist of packages or casks with a proper proportion of wrappers and fillers packed in 

 them, each for working the other. 



FINE-FIBERED CLARKSViLLE WRAPPER. This type has great smoothness and delicacy of general structure, 

 great elasticity and strength, with a moderate supply of oily substances, good breadth of leaf, and is of a port-wine 

 color. It is used largely in the United States and in Canada, in connection with the red wrapper, in the manufacture 

 of plug tobacco for smoking as well as for chewing. A large proportion of these wrappers is exported. They are 

 not popular for making cigars in the United States, because they impart a rank flavor to the cigar. Wrappers of 

 the same character are produced in Virginia and are used for like purposes. A few are taken for the manufacture 

 of stogie cigars. 



INDIANA KITE-FOOT. This is a broad, short leaf, grown in Owen and Clark counties, Indiana. It is cured 

 with fire, and the color is generally brown, sprinkled with yellow spots. The fibers are small, and the leaves are 

 very elastic. It is employed for making common cigars. 



CLASS II. CHEWING-TOBACCO. 



FINE-CUT AND PLUG FILLERS. 



WHITE BURLEY. This is the product of a new variety which within the past decade has come into profitable 

 and extensive cultivation. It is bright brown or golden in color, of thin tissue, good breadth and length of leaf, 

 comparatively free from gums and oils, possessed of great absorptive capacity, and is of a mild and pleasant flavor. 

 It is exceedingly popular with the manufacturers of plug and cutting tobacco. There are two sub-types of the White 

 Burley, known as cutters and fillers. Cutters are almost entirely destitute of gums and oils, and therefore are stiff 

 and harsh. Fillers have more body and more gum than the cutters, and are, consequently, softer and more elastic. 

 Their popularity with manufacturers arises from their capacity to absorb a very large percentage of the sauces with 

 which they are treated. Dr. Moore reports that the Owen county (Kentucky) plug fillers will absorb over two and 

 a half times their weight of water without dripping when done up in a roll. The product is popular with consumers 

 when manufactured into plug or fine-cut, because it is very mild, and can be used without producing the nervous 

 irritation consequent on the use of stronger tobacco. It is not so sweet naturally as the flue- and sun-cured tobacco 

 of Virginia, or of the air-cured product of Missouri. The chapters on Ohio and Kentucky give further details. 



FINE-CUT MASON COUNTY. This type only differs from the White Burley grown in other districts in having 

 very little gum, less body and elasticity, and is used for a cutting leaf mainly. 



RED BURLEY FILLERS. These differ from the White Burley fillers only in not having such bright colors, the 

 color being rather a dark cinnamon. The product of the Red Bnrley is also of a somewhat lighter and more flimsy 

 character when grown upon similar soils. 



VIRGINIA SUN- AND AIE-CURED FILLERS. These are made chiefly in Caroline, Hanover, Louisa, and 

 Spotsylvania counties, Virginia. The product is of medium size as to leaf, light-brown as to color, very sweet 

 and fragrant, with a fair proportion of gums and oils, and popular as a chewing-tobacco. The air-cured fillers of 

 Missouri approximate those of Virginia in the qualities of sweetness and fragrance. 



VIRGINIA FLUE-CURED FILLERS. These are of medium size, brown or mahogany in color, oily and elastic, 

 fine in texture, delicate in fiber, and have a liveliness of appearance not observable in the White Burley product. 

 They are made principally in Henry county, Virginia, and command very high prices on account of their exceeding 

 natural sweetness. 



MISSOURI AIR-CURED FILLERS. These are distinguished chiefly on account of their sweetness, and are 

 frequently mixed with the product of other states to give a pleasant taste to the manufactured article. They also 

 make a very tough "chew". 



FIRE-CURED FILLERS OF THE HEAVY TOBACCO DISTRICTS. These are employed in making a coarse, strong 

 chewing-tobacco for the consumption of miners, sailors, and lumbermen, who prefer an article with a rank tobacco 

 taste, strong in nicotine, and of great toughness of leaf. 

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