98 EXPORT AND MANUFACTURING TOBACCOS. 
New York ranks next in importance and produces annually about 
1,300,000,000 large cigars (average for 1907-1909, 1,255,000,000) 
so that these two States together produce almost 50 per cent of the 
total output of the country. Greater New York is the largest single 
producing center for the manufacture of cigars, producing nearly 
1,000,000,000 large cigars yearly. 
Richmond, Va., is particularly noted for the production of the 
class of low-grade cigars known as cheroots, and this district is 
credited with a production of about 250.000,000 large cigars yearly. 
The all-Havana cigars manufactured in this country are largely 
produced in Tampa and Key West, Fla., where climatic conditions 
for the proper mellowing, aging, and handling of the imported leaf 
are believed to be more nearly like those existing in Havana, Cuba, 
‘than elsewhere in this country. 
The production of small cigars (weighing less than 3 pounds per 
thousand) is centered at Balenwore Md., and at Danville and Rich- 
mond, Va. Together these three demos manufacture about 75 
per cent of all the little cigars and all-tobacco cigarettes produced in 
the country. Nearly all of the remaining production is concentrated 
in New York City and Philadelphia. 
DEVELOPMENT OF THE EXPORT AND MANUFACTURING TYPES OF 
TOBACCO. 
In the early days the cultivation of tobacco in Virginia was largely 
confined to the tidewater section, particularly the rich river lands 
of the James, the York, the Parnelhe anew and the Potomac Rivers. 
As Porte nts were opined farther inland, however, tobacco culture 
was carried along simultaneously. 
In the earliest attempts at growing tobacco in Virginia it is fair to 
suppose that not much differentiation of type was recognized, but 
the development of the industry had not progressed far until at least 
two general types were recognized, one the so-called sweet scented 
and the other known as Orinoco. This distinction is now lost so far 
as differentiating Orinoco from any other general type of superior 
sweetness is concerned. 
With greater refinements in taste, which of course were reflected i in 
improvements in manufacturing processes, better defined ideas of 
quality in tobacco were developed. In the Virginia area particularly 
it was observed that the tobacco produced on the clay hill lands was 
of better body, finer texture, and of superior richness and luster, and 
it came to be much preferred to the coarser and rough tobaccos of 
the river bottom land. 
The ordinary sandy coastal-plain soil produced a mild, sweet 
tobacco, but the yield was much too small. 
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