AMERICAN TOBACCO TYPES, USES, AND MARKETS All 
quantities of the licorice, sugar, and other materials used in the 
manufacture of plug tobacco. These ingredients are used to a lesser 
extent in the manufacture of twist. For pipe-smoking purposes 
medium-bodied well-ripened tobacco is desired, whereas for cigarette 
purposes the lighter grades of leaf, lugs, and trashes, suitable for cut- 
ting purposes, are used. Grades from these groups which are too 
chaffy for cutting are used in the manufacture of granulated tobacco 
for pipe smoking and hand-rolled cigarettes. 
The higher range of prices paid for cigarette grades since manufac- 
turers began using significant quantities of Burley for this purpose has 
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Burley tobacco districts 
ee in 1912. After Mathewson, 
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77a Additions to the Burley 
districts from 1912 to 1940 
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Figure 9.—In 1912, Burley tobacco was strictly a chewing and smoking type. 
With the great expansion in cigarette consumption, Burley has become an im- 
portant cigarette type. The Burley districts have accordingly been greatly 
expanded. 
led to efforts to increase the proportion of cigarette grades in the crop. 
These efforts have been directed principally along two lines—closer 
planting and the development of the so-called stand-up strains, both 
tending to promote thinness of leaf. In the stand-up strains, of which 
Judy’s Pride and Kelly are examples, the leaves are thinner and nar- 
rower, and remain erect in growth (figure 8) instead of drooping as 
do the heavier broad-leaved varieties. Production of cigarette grades 
is facilitated by the proper selection of soils, the heavy red soils of 
some districts being the least suited to this purpose. 
In common with practically all types, Burley enjoyed a great increase 
in price early in World Warl. In common with all cigarette types 
it remained on a relatively high price level, except in years when 
increases in supply or decreases in consumption forced prices down. 
Because of the price, the boundaries of the Burley district have been 
extended from year to year, partly into counties where tobacco 
production previously was almost unknown, and partly into districts 
where other types had become less profitable. The extent of this 
expansion since 1912 is shown graphically in figure 9, 
