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Plate VII 



Fig. 1. Bodega (warehouse) showing how tobacco is stored. This tobacco 

 is infested at all times. 

 2. Tobacco stored in stripping room. Badly infested, it furnishes a 

 supply of beetles for the newly stripped filler and wrapper. 



Plate VIII 



Fig. 1. Manos (hands) of first class tobacco. They contain 100 leaves each. 

 2. Apparatus used for testing cigars fumigated with hydrocyanic acid 

 for the presence of cyanides and for testing the burning quality 

 of the cigars, a, rubber nipple for holding the cigars; b, con- 

 nected y-tubes for smoking a series of 4 cigars; b', stand for 

 support; c c, Wolfe's bottles with saturated solution of silver 

 nitrate through which the smoke was passed; c' c', glass tubes 

 which conduct smoke into solution of silver nitrate; d, u-tube to 

 catch any solution that may pass from c; e, stopcock by which 

 suction is regulated; /, large jar of water which when syphoned 

 through tube g furnishes draught. 



Plate IX 



Fig. 1. Wrapper tobacco showing injury caused by larvae of the cigarette 

 beetle. 

 2. Freshly painted doors of a bodega where thousands of adult ci- 

 garette beetles were caught during one evening. Each small 

 black dot is an adult cigarette beetle. 



