trade requirements. From tobacco grown in Cuba, which 

 is an island in the West Indies, are manufactured the 

 best cigars in the world. These are known as Havana 

 cigars, Havana being the name of the capital of Cuba, 

 where the tobacco factories of the island are located. The 

 best cigarettes of the world, manufactured in Egypt, 

 and known as Egyptian cigarettes, are to a great extent 

 prepared from tobacco grown in Turkey. It may be 

 remarked here that no tobacco is grown in Egypt ; and 

 the reason why Turkish tobacco is manufactured so 

 largely in Egypt is because, in the first place, the Turkish 

 Imperial Regie has the sole monopoly of manufacturing 

 tobacco in Turkey, and no private companies are allowed 

 to establish tobacco factories there ; and secondly because 

 Egypt is the most convenient place for the manufacturers 

 of Turkish tobacco, on account of the proximity of 

 Egypt to Turkey, and the dryness of the climate, which 

 is favourable for its manufacture. In the United States 

 different varieties of tobacco are grown in different parts ; 

 and though the quality, except in some particular 

 localities, is not as good as that of Cuba or Turkey, where 

 to the soils and climatic conditions mainly are to be 

 attributed the superior qualities of tobacco, the United 

 States follows the most scientific and up-to-date methods 

 of agriculture, and is undoubtedly the leading tobacco- 

 growing country in the world. 



Though tobacco is one of the principal crops of 

 India, the quality turned out is rather inferior, and the 

 market price of the product is considerably lower than 

 that of most of the other countries. The improvement, 

 therefore, of the crop, on the lines successfully followed 

 in other countries, is of vital importance to the economic 

 condition of this country The object of this paper is 



