and the Tobacco flea beetle are minute beetles 
which attack it. Mosaic disease, Frog-eye or 
Leaf-spot are probably bacterial diseases. 
In addition, tobacco, particularly during the 
curing process, is subject to pole-burn, pole- 
sweat, or house-burn, stem-rot, white-vein, and 
various forms of mould, all these being prob- 
ably due to bacteria. 
For additional information see: 
U.S. Derr. or Acricutturs. Farmers’ Bulle- 
tin, 120. 
Howarp, L. O. The principal insects affecting 
the tobacco plant. Washington, D. C., 1900. 
U. S. Derr. or Acricutture. Bureau of 
Entomology. Bulletin 65. 
SPECKLED OF SPOTTED CIGARS 
Many smokers of cigars have the idea that 
there is some special virtue in a cigar that 
shows specks or spots of discoloration in the 
leaf. As a matter of fact such spots have 
nothing whatever to do with the quality of the 
tobacco. The occurrence of such spots is ac- 
counted for differently. Some say the spots 
are due to certain bacteria which attack the 
leaf either when growing or fermenting and 
this most probably is the correct view. Others 
say that the spots are due to rain drops which, 
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