THE MARYLAND OR BALTIMORE TYPES OF TOBACCO. 49 
The principal purchasers of this type of tobacco have large estab- 
lishments for stemming and redrying the leaf or strips for export at 
Henderson and the other 
important market towns 
of the district. The quan- 
tity of tobacco stemmed 
before shipment has re- 
cently been reduced to a 
small proportion. 
Probably 90 per cent 
of the entire product of 
this district goes to 
Great Britain, or about 
30,000,000 pounds when 
Pie Morn al crop) of 
35,000,000 pounds is pro- 
duced. The Italian Régie 
sometimes takes 2,000,000 
or 3,000,000 pounds from 
this district, which, to- 
gether with a miscellane- 
ous foreign demand, might 
easily make up the remain- 
ing 5,000,000 pounds not — 
taken by Great Britain. 
The t¢ erritory covered Fic. 19.—English strips, long and short, dark-fired tobacco, 
E A 2 Henderson or ‘‘Stemming’” district, Kentucky. (Photo- 
by the dark-fired districts graphed by the Bureau of Soils.) 
of Virginia, Kentucky, and 
Hemme. co, including their several sues, is shown on the maps 
(CPE AL and II, in pocket). 
THE MARYLAND OR BALTIMORE TYPES OF TOBACCO. 
_ As already stated, the beginning of the production of tobacco in 
Maryland was almost coeval with the beginnings of its production in 
Virginia, and it is thus one of the oldest types produced in this 
country. In the early days practically all the tobacco produced 
was exported. Maryland, having a palatinate form of government 
and being to a large extent free from the domination of the British 
colonial policy, could ship tobacco to other than British ports. 
Much of the Maryland product, therefore, went direct to the Con- 
tinent, particularly to Holland and France. The foreign demand 
for Maryland tobacco was thus established at a very early date and 
has persisted to the present time. The tobacco of the Maryland or 
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