MANUFACTURE, 48% 
world, or at least of Europe. In Great Britain, Spain and 
Portugal, no tobacco is cultivated, and these countries are 
therefore dependent upon their colonies for a supply of the 
great product. The commerce in the plant is extensive and 
reaches to every part of the globe. No nation, state, or 
empire now ignores the revenue to be derived from its 
import or culture, and many a government receives more 
from this plant alone than from any other source. 
While some nations prohibit its culture at home, their 
colonies are allowed to grow it, and thus the article and the 
revenue are both secured. But while the production of the 
plant and the commerce depending on it are extensive, they 
are not more so than the manufacture of the leaf into the 
various preparations for use. The government work-shops of 
Seville and Manilla, as well as those of Havana and Paris are 
of enormous proportions and employ thousands of operatives 
in the manufacture of cigars and cigarettes. In this country 
and in England, large quantities of cigars are made both 
from domestic and foreign tobaccos. 
In South America also many are made, but more for home 
use than for export. Cutting leaf is largely manufactured 
in this country, especially near the great leaf growing sec- 
tions. Most of this is used here, the leaf for manufacture 
abroad being exported in hogsheads for cutting in any form 
desired. Snuff leaf is exported largely from this country to 
Great Britain and France, where are the largest manufact- 
urers of snuff in the world. At the present time the 
demand seems greater for cutting than for cigar leaf. The 
growths of the West Indies and South America furnish a 
large quantity of fine tobacco for cigars, but comparatively 
little for cutting purposes. European tobaccos are adapted 
for both cutting and for cigars, and are used extensively at 
home though not considered equal to American varieties, 
being of a milder flavor. As an article of production and 
commerce, tobacco must be considered as important as any 
of the great products or staples, since the demand is constant 
and continually increasing. Year by year its cultivation 
