19 EXPORT AND MANUFACTURING TOBACCOS. 
The character of the soil that first produced the White Burley is strong, black, 
coarse river-hill land, and underlaid with limestone. The growth of timber cut from 
this land was principally sugar, lin, buckeye, ash, walnut, hickory, oak, and beech. 
Although it is well known to the country dealer that much the best quality of White 
Burley is grown on this kind of land, experience has satisfied us that any good, strong, 
old or new land that will produce any other class of cutting tobacco will produce this. 
In 1867 I gave this growth of tobacco the name of White Burley, owing to its simili- 
tude in size and texture to the ordinary Burley, and to its almost white color when 
thoroughly ripe. The cultivation is the same as for any other cutting tobacco. 
As this almost contemporaneous account indicates, the new white 
tobacco came first into prominence as a superior type for the manu- 
facture of fine-cut chewing tobacco. 
The Virginia type of lies manufactured from the sweet air or coal 
cured tobacco of Virginia and North Carolina, had dominated the 
trade in chewing tobacco up to the breaking out of the Civil War. 
The war, however, completely demoralized this Virginia trade. In 
its place fine-cut chewing tobacco made from the Yellow Pryor type 
of leaf produced in the Mason County, Green River, and Missouri 
districts of the West and manufactured extensively in Cincinnati, 
Louisville, and St. Louis became very popular, as did also plug made 
from the Green River type of leaf. It was milder than the Virginia 
product and after the war the trade, except locally, did not go back 
to the Virginia fillers. But these new western products, fine cut and 
plug made from the western Yellow Pryor leaf, in turn had to give 
way to the new White Burley tobacco. 
The unusual suitability of the White Burley for plug was not 
generally recognized, however, until the later seventies of the last 
century. The regular filler stock of the Green River type was very 
scarce and high in 1875 and some of the St. Louis and Jersey City 
factories tried in a small way some of the heavier red grades of 
Burley not suited for cutting stock, which were low in price from lack 
of demand. Consumers liked the new product and it proved especially 
pleasing to manufacturers because of the large quantity of cheap 
flavoring liquids which it would readily absorb. Some of these brands 
are reported to contain as much as 40 per cent of flavoring sauces. 
The rapidity of this early development in the popularity and pro- 
duction of Burley may be illustrated by comparing the production 
of tobacco in Brown, Adams, and Clermont Counties in Ohio in 1870 
and 1880. These three counties comprise the important Burley- 
producing section of Ohio. In 1869 they produced, according to the 
Census returns, 4,009,978 pounds of tobacco and in 1879 this was 
increased to 10,823,183 pounds, or more than 250 per cent. The 
normal production of Burley in these three counties, from 1905 to 
1909, was about 13,000,000 pounds annually. 
The White Panes strain of seed was also introduced into and rapidly 
extended in the neighboring counties across the river in Kentucky, 
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