36 EXPORT AND MANUFACTURING TOBACCOS. 
France generally purchases about 30,000,000 pounds of tobacco in 
this country yearly, subject to quite vale nota hone in particular 
years, much of which is of the dark-fired types and consists prin- 
cipally of the lighter-bodied tobacco of medium to low grade. Much 
the larger percentage of the dark-fired tobacco taken by France is 
from the Paducah district of Kentucky and Tennessee. 
The Spanish buyers take low-grade tobacco wherever it can be 
obtained cheapest. Their purchases in this country fluctuate con- 
Fie. 10.—English strips, English leaf, and Austrian leaf tobacco from the Virginia dark-fired district. 
(Photographed by the Bureau of Soils.) ’ 
siderably, according to the price of tobacco. The quantity of Amer- 
ican tobacco purchased by Spain generally ranges from 10,000,000 to 
20,000,000 pounds annually, most of which is usually of the lowest 
nomen grades of dark-fired leaf. 
The Belgium trade is also estimated to take 2,000, 000 or 3,000,000 
pounds annually of this dark-fired type of leaf of a wade and Goals 
about like that taken by France. 
Several million pounds of rather coarse but very long, dark tobacco 
is tied in the customary small bundles and prepared by special treat- 
ment for export to Africa to be sold in the leaf at retail to the natives. © 
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