B. P. f.—727. 
THE EXPORT AND MANUFACTURING TOBACCOS 
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITH BRIEF REFEK- 
Per OIE GAR TY is 
INTRODUCTION. 
DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE EXPORT AND MANUFACTURING AND THE 
CIGAR TYPES OF TOBACCO. 
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The designations ‘‘export”’ and ‘‘manufacturing”’ are used by the 
trade to distinguish these tobaccos from cigar tobacco. The terms 
themselves do not make the distinction very clear. The making of 
cigars might, of course, be regarded as a manufacturing process, but 
as here used the term is limited to the domestic manufacture of pipe 
and cigarette smoking tobacco, cigarettes, chewing tobacco, and 
snuff. There is, however, some reason for restricting the term “‘manu- 
facturing’ to these types, because the making of cigars is largely 
a hand process, requiring in its simpler forms no machinery worth 
mentioning. In the case of the manufacturing tobaccos, however, 
the machinery used is the dominating element, from putting the leaf 
into keeping order by the elaborate and costly machine drier to the 
finished products of the plug presses, the granulating and cutting 
machines, and the snuff and cigarette machines. The manufacture 
of these types adapts itself readily to the concentration of a great 
business intoa single very large factory, with an elaborate and costly 
machine equipment, without which the chances of successful compe- 
tition are minimized. As is well known, this point has been of funda- 
mental importance in the success of the great tobacco combinations 
in the manufacturing field. 
The export tobaccos are of the same general type as those used in * 
domestic manufacture, the same general methods are used in pro- 
ducing and handling them, and in finding a market they move through 
the same channels of trade. The export and manufacturing tobaccos 
are thus naturally and properly considered together as a single broad 
type, although, as will be explained later, there are important modi- 
fications of quality in connection with some of them that cause cer- 
tain types to be used mostly for domestic manufacture and consump- 
tion and others to be mainly exported. 
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