able for cigar making, 12c per lb.; for “other 
leaf,” 50.44¢ per Ib. 
Oruer Imrortep Cigar Lear 
Since the introduction of tax-free manufac- 
tured cigars from the Philippines the importa- 
tion of leaf has declined. 
Mexican leaf is used as a substitute for 
Cuban, to which it is inferior. 
The imports of cigar leaf tobacco from Porto 
Rico and Brazil are relatively unimportant. 
Cigar Lear Toxsacco Grown In THE U. S. 
The home grown tobacco leaf used in the 
cigar manufacturing trade of the U. S. is grown 
principally in the states of Connecticut, New 
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Florida, 
Georgia, and Texas. The Connecticut leaf is 
used for wrappers and binders. The Ohio and 
Pennsylvania leaf almost exclusively for fillers. 
Wisconsin produces binder leaf particularly. 
The leaf grown elsewhere is used mostly as 
wrappers. It is usual, however, to use the im- 
ported and Sumatran leaf as wrappers for all 
high class home-made cigars. 
The finest American grown wrapper leaf is 
raised in Connecticut. The best known brands 
are known as Connecticut Seedleaf and Connec- 
ticut Broadleaf, both varieties raised orginally 
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