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Cautero Tobacco Seedbeds. Salud. Havana Province. Xote Wind Protection .\tTorded by Fence 

 ^lf Dry Millet Stalks; also, Watering Can With Lengthened Spout. 



Young Tobacco Under Cheese-cloth, San Cristobal, Pinar del Rio Province. 



sidcivd the finest finiwii nut only in Cul»a but anywhere in the world. The product 

 of those of its soils which are truly adapted to the growth of this crop is light in 

 wi'ight, thin and silky in texture and sweet and aromatic in flavor. The wrapper 

 prodticed ill this region is the best in the Island, this being tlie case not only with 

 that produced without shelter but also in the case of that produced under cheese 

 c:o!h anil other artificial shade. Quite similar to the tobacco from the true Vuelta 



