50 TOBACCO CULTURE IN THE WEST INDIES 
to give specifie instructions, the thermometer in the hands 
of an inexperienced man is certainly less desirable. 
SORTING AND BALING 
After fermenting, the leaves are sorted and graded ac- 
cording to size, texture, color and perfectness, often mak- 
ing over thirty grades. 
A first class shade grown wrapper will run about 160 
leaves to the pound, if it falls a great deal below this it 
will be too heavy for that class, no matter how large and 
perfect the leaves may be. Wrappers are baled according 
to number of leaves and not according to weight. <A bale 
of first class wrapper contains 9,600 leaves, second class 
11,200, third class 12,800, fourth class 14,400 and fifth class 
16,000 leaves. 
When baling, the tobacco is made into bundles called 
‘““manos’”’ (hands). Four of these manos are again tied in- 
to bundles called ‘‘carrotes’’ These bundles are tied to- 
gether with a strip of the inner bark of the emajagua. The 
‘‘carrotes’’ are then wrapped in the leaf sheath of the 
royal palm ealled ‘‘jagua’’. 80 ‘‘carrotes’’ making a bale 
which is the standard size. Ot course the filler and low 
grade wrapper is not baled according to number of leaves, 
but a hand is an ordinary hand-full, four hands make a 
‘‘earrote’’ and 80 ‘‘carrotes’’ make a bale, 
