TOBACCO-RAISING IN PRUSSIA. 353 
Breslau, Ratibor, and Oels. The princi sal tobacco-growi 
ilar of Prussia is Brandenburg, aad less again eee 
arly the part of the government district of Potsdam which 
contains the towns of Neustadt, Eberswalde and Prenzlau 
Besides the districts mentioned, tobacco is grown largely in 
that of Frankfort-on-the Oder. In the province of Saxony 
the chief districts are those of Stendal, Salzwedel, Nordhausen 
Burg, and Wittenburg. Hanover, like the other western 
provinces of the kingdom, produces a superior quality of 
tobacco to that raised in the eastern parts of Prussia—the 
most important district is that of Munden. The chief 
tobacco-growing districts of Hesse-Nossau are situated near 
the towns of Cassel and Hanau. In Rhenish Prussia the 
lant is cultivated, particularly in the neighborhood of Cleve, 
mmerich, Coblenz, Creuznach, and Saarbruck; the dis- 
tricts first mentioned produce a very superior quality. The 
production of tobacco in Westphalia is extremely small, while 
in the province of Schleswig-Holstein the plant is not culti- 
vated at all. In the account given it will be seen that the 
tobacco plant holds an important place among the products 
of Prussia, and although not as extensively cultivated as 
formerly, has not been entirely driven from the soil by other 
products which yield a larger profit to the producer. The 
lant is cultivated in other parts of Germany, especially in. 
avaria, where large quantities of tobacco are grown, par- 
ticularly so in the Bavarian Palatinate and in Franconia (viz., 
the districts around Nuremberg and Erlangen). In the 
Kingdom of Saxony but little tobacco is raised, as is also the 
case in Wurtemberg, although the soil and climate in parts 
of this state are said to be very favorable to the growth of 
the tobacco plant; the area of land cultivated is upon the 
whole, a very limited one, and in 1871 did not exceed 178.2 
hectares. The Grand ‘Duchy of Baden has at all times been 
the chief tobacco-growing part of Germany; as far back as 
the end of the Seventeenth Century, special laws for regula- 
tion of the cultivation, preparation, and warehousing of this 
article were in force. The most prominent tobacco-growing 
districts of Baden are those of Carlsruhe, Mannheim, Heidel- 
burg, Badenburg, Schwetzingen, and Lahr; the quality of 
the plant grown in those parts being a very superior one 
(among the various kinds of German tobacco). The produce 
of the districts mentioned is therefore applied chiefly in the 
manufacture of cigar wrappers, and is exported in consider- 
able quantities to Bremen, Hamburg, Switzerland, Holland, 
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