The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-03-22
All About Tobacco, Cigars and SNUFF.

All About Tobacco, Cigars and Snuff
| The Nel0 York Commercial Ad
Uertiser prints a good deal of infor
nation concerning tobacco in tn
following racy einterviewers's
style:
] "Mr. A., how many kinds of to
bacco do you recognize in com
merce?"
1.-TWO; chewing and smoking"
"How about snuff?''
"That is included with chewing to
bacco."
"Where is chewing tobacco
raised2"
"MOstly in Virgins, Missouri auC
Kentucky. The Virginia tobacco
is the best and it is made into "plug.'
Fine cut is mostly made of KentucJ
tobacco. Louisiana is made into
big rolls called ''perigue." This Mis-
souri, tobacco ranks next to Vir.
ginia, but during the war we got in
to making it in New York"
"Where is the best sine CUT TO-
bacco nader
'ln Detroit, Michigan, where they
have thirteen factories"
"HOw do they make snuff"
yellow Scotch snuff is ground in
a mill from tobacco which has been
fermented in vat. "Maccoday,'' or
black snuff, is cut up with a knife. I"
Where do they use snuff mostY
swell, in South Carolina and Ar
kansas, where the most of the wo
men eat it. They chew the end of a
pine stick, then dip it into the snuff,
and hold it in their mouths"
"Where is cigar tobacco raisedY'
"In Connecticut, New York, Penn
sylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin and Gu
ba."
''Is there a great difference in the
tobacco raised in these different
StatesT'
eyes. There is a great variation
in price. For example, Cuba tobac-
co is worth on an average 81 per
pound. Vuegta Abgjo is the best in
Cuba, and is worth $l.O5; Partidos
and Remedies are worth 80 cents, and
Yara, which is raised in the rebel
iOus district, is worth ST."
"Which Safe raises the best cigar
tobacco in the country?'
Connecticut raises the best cigar
tobacco. The tobacco used in Con
nectlcut is generally used for cigar
wrappers, and is worth 55 to rs
cents per pound"
"What State raises the next best
tobaccoP"
New York. Her best tobocco is
raised between Syracuse and Elmira.
on what is called the Big Flats. It
is worth % cents. Pennsylvania to-
bacco is worth % cents, and Wiscon-
sin II cents"
"From what tobacco are most Of
our cigars made?"
"From Havana filing with Con-
neeticut wrappers. Havana wrap
pers are too expensive. They are
worth $3.50 per poundP'
"Where are the best cigars
smoked"
"In New York"
"Where are they madeP'
"Here in the city."
"What cigars are made in CubaY'
"The "Henry Clays,' "Conchas,"
and the "Upmans," which is the
finest brand, but they are all imitat-
ed here"
"What are Partagas9"
"They are cigar made by Sena-
tor Partaga, in Cuba. They are
l, 2, and 3-this is first
best, second best, and third best.
Most all the Partagas smoked in
New York are made here. A Part
ga Sd is about as good as a Partaga
1st, only it Is milder, and looks
rougher externally"
"What other brands of Cuban ci-
gars are thereP'
"The brands called Cabano, Villar,
L'Espanolo, Regalia, Brittania, Co
quette, Figaro, and L'Africaine."
"What makes Cuban tobacco the
best?"
at is owing to the climate. III
tobacco plants are brought from Gu
ba, and set out in Connecticut, they
will change their normal state in a
few weeks. They will draw new
juices from the ground and absorb
new gasses from the air, and the to-
baccO will become inferior. It will
become rank"
"To what countries do we export
tobacco"
awe send about $4,000 hogsheads
to France, "a hogshead weighs from
800 to 1000 pounds), 10000 to
Spain, $4,000 to Italy, $4,000 to Ger
many, 5000 to Austria, and from
10000 to 10000 to England"
"How much tobacco do we con-
sumo in this country simply for
chewing and snufing?'
100000 fourteen hundred pound
hogsheads. This at 10 cents per
pound would amount to $21, 100000,
which goes into the hands of the !
producer. $4O,OOO,OOO, 1 should |
say, goes to the retail dealer. This
for chewing and snufing alone, and |
that is only the commemorate of |
the story. You would despair at |
the smoking statistics. -
swell, how many cigars were
smoked last yearF'
According to General Pleasan-
ION, who collected the tax on them, |
there were ], 1882, ,246,O cigars used |
asst year. Thus one billion three
hundred and thirty-two million and |
lwo hundred and forty six thousand |
cigars were undoubtedly retailed at !
ZEN cents apiece. So we smoked up |
n this country last year $133, ,224,O 900 |
worth of tobacco"
"Good gracious" said L; ''if l on
y had old Saratoga statistican here
low, how he would revel over these
igures!''
"$133, 3,224,6OO for cigars, you say,
Mr.. A.Y''
eyes"
sHow muchwas spent for flour, |
hen?"
20, 1 suppose about $20O,00O,-
)OO."
snow that little S133,244,6O0 was
'nly paid out for cigars-hOw much