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poso, and yielding a yearly crop of about 

 40,000 tons!" The Hungarian tobacco is finely 

 flavom-ed and much imported into this country. 

 The statistics report 1,464,350 lbs., or £57,435 

 worth of tobacco irom Germany. 



There are large fields on the Rhine where the 

 authoi'ities have much encouraged the growth, as 

 cultivated by small proprietors, giving employ- 

 ment to thousands of persons. Germany exports 

 largely to all countries, even, Ave are told, in bad 

 seasons, to Havana. 



In France the tobacco trade has of late years 

 risen to gi^eat importance. As in Germany and 

 Austria, the cultivation is a Government mono- 

 poly, and to the action of the Government is 

 principally due the immense and rapid progress 

 of the trade, for instance, as regards the choice 

 of seed to be grown — a subject of primary im- 

 portance. " Formerly in France each cultivator 

 of tobacco provided his own seed ; now the Go- 

 vernment Administration has taken the matter 

 into its hands and grows its own seed, selecting 

 with extreme care only the finest plants for it, 

 and this seed it supplies to the farmers, who are 

 prohibited from using any other." From France, 

 in 1884, we imported 733,207 lbs. at a value 

 of £23,975. 



Fi'om Holland, where the tobacco cultivation 



