Similarly in the case of Florida grown Cuban 
leaf which at the same Exposition was voted 
‘as equal to the native. The native leaf, how- 
ever, whether due to the soil or not, has a finer 
flavor and aroma, and the best grades of native 
grown Cuban tobacco still hold the palm as 
the premier cigar tobacco of the world. 
The leaf raised in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, 
Ohio, Wisconsin, Florida, Massachusetts, and 
New York State, is generally used for the cigar 
trade (see the chapters on cigars). Ohio and 
Florida (Cuban seed) leaf mostly used as cigar 
fillers; Connecticut and Florida (Sumatran 
seed), Pennsylvania and New York leaf mostly 
as wrapper leaf, the inferior leaves being used 
as fillers. Wisconsin leaf is used principally as 
cigar binder leaf. The total amount of cigar 
tobacco raised is roughly about one-fifth of the 
entire tobacco crop. 
The southern states produce the bulk of the 
export dark, heavy leaf. West Kentucky and 
Tennessee particularly, as well as Virginia, the 
Carolinas and Maryland, export considerable 
quantities. This tobacco is fire-cured. For the 
domestic trade, however, (pipe-smoking, chew- 
ing and cigarettes) the tobacco grown in these 
states is flue-cured, the principal product being 
of a bright yellow color, characteristic of this 
region. 
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