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THE DARK-FIRED TYPE OF TOBACCO. oi 
| Leaf of a like nature, often spoken of as black fat or black horse, is 
similarly prepared for export to parts of the West Indies, Mexico, 
and a number of Spanish-American countries of Central and South 
America. A portion of thistype of leaf aggregat- 
ing probably some 5,000,000 pounds or more is ob- 
tained from different parts of the dark-fired districts 
of the country where leaf of suitable length and 
reasonable price may be obtained, although the 
presence of smoke on the leaf is not an essential 
requisite. Much of this ‘“‘rehandling”’ type, as it 
is generally called, is obtained also from the One- 
Sucker districts of Kentucky and Tennessee and 
southern Indiana. 
Figures 10 and 11 show samples of some of these 
various standard types, produced in the dark-fired 
districts of the country. 
REVIEW OF THE DARK-FIRED TYPE BY DISTRICTS. 
THE VIRGINIA DARK DISTRICT. 
The annual production of dark-fired tobacco 
in Virginia is about 52,000,000 pounds, or about 
25 per cent of the total production of this type. 
The Virginia State Department of Agriculture now 
collects accurate figures of the first-hand sales of 
tobaccoin Virginia by markets, but nothing is avail- 
able of an accurate statistical nature to show the 
distribution of the acreage of the different types 
of tobacco produced in the State. Dark-fired to- 
bacco, however, constitutes not quite one-half of 
Fig. 11. — Dark - brown 
“snuffer’’ tobacco from 
the dark-fired districts 
of Kentucky, Tennes- 
see, and Virginia. (Pho- 
tographed by the Bu- 
reau of Soils.) 
the total annual production of the State, distributed by counties, ac- 
cording to the best estimates obtainable, about as shown in Table V. 
TaBLE V.—EHstimated annual production of dark-fired tobacco in Virginia, distributed 
by counties arranged from west to east. 
Counties. Pounds. Counties. Pounds. 
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