THE MARYLAND OR BALTIMORE TYPES OF TOBACCO. 53 
production and to the diversion of attention to other crops which 
have proved more profitable. In the eastern Ohio section, the 
development of the petroleum industry also proved a diverting 
influence, as lands were more valuable for oil wells than for farming. 
The Baltimore types of tobacco are valuable as a whole because of 
their color, good burning qualities, and fineness. For these qualities 
they are desired by European countries, where they are much 
used to mix with other tobacco to make the appearance of the latter 
more attractive and to help the combustion of bad-burning tobaccos. 
Aside from these qualities, the Baltimore types are rather weak, dry, 
Fic. 21.—Maryland fine colory leaf export tobacco, showing how hands are fanned out in packing. 
(Photographed by the Bureau of Soils.) 
and characterless tobaccos. They are used almost exclusively for 
pipe smoking and for cigarettes. 
In general appearance the Maryland tobacco more nearly resembles 
Burley than any other important type, both in color and in general 
appearance, but it does not possess such good absorptive capacity 
for sauces or other liquids, and has not quite as good life and body. 
Indeed, Burley seed is used extensively both in the upper-county 
Maryland district and in the eastern Ohio district. 
Until recently about 10 per cent of the eastern Ohio tobacco was 
produced across the river in West Virginia, particularly in Jackson 
and Wood Counties. Recently, however, the production of the fired, 
spangled tobacco in West Virginia has been greatly reduced and the 
tobacco now produced there is nearly all ordinary air-cured Burley. 
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