The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-10-09


pipe once lighted is allowed to cooD,
so an arrangement was made for it to
pass from mouth to mouth of a regi-
ment of soldiers, the owner of the pipe
to pay the bill. After seven months a
most perfect pipe was handed to the
fortunate proprietor, with a bill for
more than one hundred pounds ster-
ling, which had been the cost of the to-
bacco sacrificed in the feat.
The values placed on perfect pipes
would startle not a few of our readers.
Their weight in gold, many times told.
hardly sufficing to meet the ideas of
their owners.
Vienna, to which large quantities of
the raw material is transported, has for
ages been famous for the beauty and
perfection of meerschaum productions.
DIR. Dibdin, in his "Bibliographical
Tour in France and Germany" says:
"A good Austrian thinks he can never
pay too much for a good pipe," and he
instances a gentleman whom he met,
"who drew from his pocket a short
pipe which screwed together in three
divisions, and of which the upper part
of the bowl-made in the fashion of a
Blackamoor's head-near the aperture,
was composed of diamonds of great
lustre and value. Upon inquiring 1
found that this pipe was worth about
FL, 600 of our money"
The designs of these Vienna manu-
facturers are published in elaborate il
lustrated books, and embrace every va
riety of landscape, animal and vegeta-
BILE life. TO-.
The tobacco plant is found in not less
than forty varieties. Of these sh, II
remark on three or four, as being those
now most in use among manufacturers.
The Virginia tobacco is the first, as be-
| ing the common name under which all
American tobacco was formerly known
and from which the varieties now in
use were derived. But the effect of the
climate and soil has so essentially
changed the character of the plant that
almost every tobacco-growing locality
has its distinctive grade, though in
point of climate, remark generally it
demands a climate very nearly the same
as the Indian corn, therefore we may
designate the archaeological limit of
tobacco cultivation for all parts of the
United States. Wherever the growth
of corn is completely successful, as in
temperature for July above sixty
eight degrees, tobacco is and may be
freely grown. Connecticut, Central
New York, Ohio and parts of Iowa, are
scarcely less adapted to tobacco culture
than Kentucky and Virginia. The
chief difference is slight limitation of
its period in time, and experience has
| fully shown that, to this extent, this
may be very safely effected by a little
care in the selection of varieties. South
ward its range is also like that of maize,
with perhaps the exception of produc-
ing more desirable varieties in tropical
climates.
Soil however, combined with climate
everywhere marks the quality of the
leaf raised, even in Virginia and North
Carolina, where the choicest varieties
for smoking tobacco are grown, differ
ent sections produce such a variety of
grades, that it is only by inspection of
an expert, that the classes are divided,
those from certain localities being vast
ly superior to others. The same re-
mark will apply to all. The leaf for
plug and fine cut chewing tobacco
again always are chosen from Kentucky
and Ohio, Cincinnati being the princi-
pal market, while formerly they were
mostly taken from Virginia Connec-
ticut and Pennsylvania tobacco, is
chiefly priced for use in wrappers of
CAk0Acs OCAhk VA q hhC bCAkokO "a ACdA,
makes a smoother and better looking
cigar. even than the finer grades of
Cuban leaf. Maryland tobacco finds
its largest buyers among the German
and French, for exports to those coun-
tries. Another feature of the tobacco
plant, the leaves from the same plants
are graded, the bottom leaves being of
the poorest quality and least value.
The Syrian tobacco, as it is known,
is another variety of American tobacco,
but in its transplanted state, produces
| a smaller plant, milder in flavor and is
Turkish smoking tobacco and until
within few years Gas shall show in
another part of this article) used al
most wholly for cigarettes. should
have remarked before of the peculiar
| flower of the Virginian tobacco, which
is q delicate shade of pink, while
those of the Syrian are green, and in
Shiraz or Persian tobacco, pure white
This tobacco (the Persian) is not fitted
at all for cigars but ranks as a most
delicate class of smoking tobacco, and
differs in but a slight degree from the
varieties of Oregon, Columbia and Cal
ifornia, and some parts of Colorado
and New Mexico.
Cuban tobacco however, ever has,
and doubtless will retain its pre-emi-
nence for the production of tobacco
fitted for cigars, while it falls far
behind other localities for other pur-
poses. The reason for this seems to be
mainly in the climate. No danger from
tropical excesses, either of heat or hu-
midity during the period of growth
alone, but in the extraordinary care
given to perfecting the peculiar quail
ties of the leaf. and the uniformity of
climate at the close of the season is the
greater of the advantages that the
island has over any part of the United
States in accomplishing this end. With
the exception of that grown in Vuelta
de Abajo and other favored localities,
the tobacco grown in Cuba is of no bet
ter quality than that grown in Florida
and other parts of the South. But the
| ripening season is so often variable
and extreme in the United States, that
much is lost, that possibly by care and
adequate precaution, could be pre-
served. t..-
| OF the culture and manufacture it is
hardly our province to here enter, but
a few statistics will not be out of place
to show the vast importance of the prod
uct of the country.
The old woman who lately said, that
there was more money spent for tobac-
CO than bread, it will be seen think,
"has the facts tobacker," to an extent
we hardly realize.
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