PERIQUE TOBACCO. 97 
“and by the estimates of the growers. More than 50 Perique manu- 
facturers are usually registered on the internal-revenue books. 
Manufacturers mostly use Perique in small quantities in fancy 
smoking-tobacco mixtures to give them richness and aroma. Con- 
siderable Perique is used locally in the form of fine cut for chew- 
ing and as shaved from the ends of the carottes for rolling into 
cigarettes. Cigars of some brands have a few strands of Perique in 
them to add to the body and richness of the smoke. 
The Perique district is principally confined to a small section of 
St. James Parish on the east side of the Mississippi River and immedi- 
ately back from the river from Lutcher to Convent, a distance of 
about 12 miles. More than half the total production is cen- 
Fic. 37.—Winding the carotte with rope, which is left very tight by the windlass arrangement, Perique 
: tobacco district, St. James Parish, La. 
tered in the Grand Point district about 3 miles from the river and 
back of Hester station. Grand Point is not a projection into the 
river, as might be supposed, but rather a body of land a little lighter 
in texture and slightly above the general flat level, jutting into low, 
swampy land back from the river. Here in a small section, perhaps 
not over 1,000 acres in extent, reside most of the Perique planters, 
each growing usually from 5 to 15 acres of tobacco, to which they 
devote practically their entire attention. They are nearly all Arca- 
dian French—a very kindly and hospitable people. 
Perique tobacco in carottes now sells at retail for about 50 cents a 
pound. In whisky barrels to dealers, however, the prices vary con- 
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