Cigarette manufacturing in Havana. A scene in the hand packing department ot the "El Siboney" 

 factory. The conveyor is seen going at full speed. It also shows the different style in the package, 

 showing different brands of cigarettes that are manufactured by the company. The girl to the right 

 has a number of stamps in her hand ready to attach to the packages. This stamp is placed on all 

 boxes of cigarettes which are made for local consumption, and represents the tax levied on manu- 

 factured tolDacco under the $35,000,000 army loan. Standing against the wall are to be seen packages 

 of cut tobacco. This class of tobacco is more for export than for local use. 



CUBAN TOBACCO. 



The quality of this year's tobacco crop 

 is reported better than for many previous 

 years, according to El Tobaco, the raw- 

 tobacco sales for 12 months ending Sep- 

 tember 3 amounting to 25,976,200 pounds, 

 the laro-est ever recorded for the same 

 period. 



"The exportation of raw tobacco during 

 August amounted to 108,480 pounds more 

 than for the same month in 1907. Expor- 

 tation of manufactured cigars has de- 

 creased. 



Italy's Imports. — Imports of leaf tobacco 

 by Italy from Cuba in the last two fiscal 

 years are as follows : 



1904-5. 



Quantity, pounds 55,000 



Value $21,700. 



1906-7. 



Quantity, pounds 72,000 



Value $37,500 



Price per 100 pounds : 



1904-5 $39.17 1906-7 $56.68 



— U. S. Government Report 



Heavy Tobacco Receipts. 



No two months' receipts from the 

 country for the past five years surpass 

 that of August and September in 1908. 



Packers were unusually active in get- 

 ting their goods to market, for several 

 reasons. One was that many buyers^ 

 were in Havana and there w:as a good 

 chance of making a sale. Some say, too, 

 that packers are anxious to get their 

 packings into Havana before the Cuban 

 election, when there may possibly be 

 trouble in the country. The numbers 

 of bales received were as follows: 



1904. 1905. 1906. 1907. 1908. 

 August .. 72,871 110,273 75.691 79,657 91,305 

 September 84,763 68,536 40,173 85,825 i23,o>i3 



Total ..157,634 178,809 115,864 165,482 214,318 

 Business- in the Havana cigar fac- 

 tories continues about the same. Orders 

 are not too much in evidence, and some 

 factories are making a very small num- 

 ber of sigars. Some, however, are get- 

 ting in better orders, and expect soon 

 to be able to increase their forces. 



Receipts of tobacco in bales from the 

 country since January 1 were as follows: 

 Vuelto Abajo, 203,912; Semi-Vuelta, 

 12,711; Partido, 28,163; Matanzas, 413; 

 Santa Clara (Remedios), 108,080; Puer- 

 to Principe, 469; Santiago de~ Cuba, 

 8,449: total, 362,197 bales. — Havana, 

 Oct. 9, 1908. Tobacco Leaf, N. Y. 



