WHY IT SHOULD BE GROWN. 19 



is the amount exported to England from the 

 same. 



In America tobacco forms a part or the sole 

 trade of twentj-one States, extending from 

 Florida to Canada, and certainly including 

 climates far colder than our own ; even in Vir- 

 ginia, the ice being frequently thick enough on 

 ponds for the supply of ice-houses. 



From the United States in 1884 we imported 

 37,186,980 lbs. of unmanufactured tobacco, or 

 £1,183,102 worth. From British North America 

 in the same year 150,056 lbs. or £5188 worth. 

 To turn to Europe. 



Tobacco-growing in Hungary has become a 

 leading feature, involving the employment of a 

 staff of Government officials for the express 

 superintendence of the trade. As regards the 

 growth and cure of tobacco in Austro-Hungary, 

 Herr Mandis, Government Inspector, has written 

 a valuable work well worth the perusal of in- 

 tending growers at home. 



" Mr. Mandis," says Forbes Watson, in his 

 Report on Tobacco- Growing in India (1871), 

 " speaks from a long personal acquaintance with 

 and experience of the cultivation of tobacco in 

 Holland, and in the various provinces of 

 Austria, where tobacco is grown extensively, 

 about 160,000 acres being devoted to the pur- 

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