Morning journal and courier., 1882-04-19
From the New York Sum


 tans FunetIonnry-vnieria and Am-
 moafn Used, and Opium and CascartLIa
 Bark Not Unknown.
 From the New York Sum-
 -"There is no doubt" said large city ,,oanufaeturer stthat tobacco Is fixed up in many ways, in order to prepare It for it's various markets. A poor tobacco may gain a higher marketable value by treatment, ai- though it is not possible to make good ar ticls out of a bad one. The genuine lover of tobacco will distinguish between a natural and an artificial flavor, unless the latter Is carefully employed. ...s. s-.5.-
 .sThe points to be attended to in cigar making are appearance, flavor, color, texture, easy draught and eVenness in burning. Much depends upon the appearance; that IS, the wrapper In New Jersey, for instance, a light-colored wrapper must always be used Tn PennsyIvania and further south 1t IS lm- possible to sell anything but Colorados. The New England wrapper will alous suit them. Colorados are, however, not liked In the West, even in Colorado itself. In almost every western State, except perhaps Ohio, dealers must have dark, smooth and some what oily wrapper. They won's touch light cigar The heavy, dark wrappers are grown mostly in Pennsylvania. They do not com pare with eastern wrappers, but western dealers must have them in all except the higher grades of goods.
 NHWllie the ADp6dTduCc OI a GaHak AS NAS chiefly to it's wrapper, its flavor depends up- on the filling. The best cigars have Connec- ticut wrappers and Havana filling. Thls wrapper. even now so highly prized, is, how ever, slowly deteriorating. It has no longer the smooth, clear surface and silky quality ot a few years ago It is dry, more friable, and has a rougheT appearance than formerly that is, unless it is grown on fresh soil. Our domestic tobacco lands are losing some of their most excellent qualities We still get splendid tobacco from the South, which l is largely used in the various forms of filling, | smoking and chewing, but now refer to the. important point of wrapping. We can. | not do as much as we would wish toward | improving the appearance of wrappers 1 they will not stand rough treatment. Ger | tain processes are used, however, with far | results.
 "The chemists have an important share in our work, as they do nowadays with the | manipulation of almost every article of | human consumption. I know fifteen of them employed exclusively in the factories of this | city. It is an open secSet that their duties 1 consist largely in ipsuring the evenness of l goods havoring them, and improving their l apparent quality. In the favoring of wrap I pers they can do little, though they often 1 color or spot them. It Is in the havor1ng l of filings and in developing and heightening ! the narcotic powers of the weed and thus | making it marketable at higher prices, that their services are in demand. I do not think that opium or its salts are now used by manufacturing tobacconlsts, though there is an absurd popular belief to l that effect. Nor do know of any leaf that ! is used to any extent as substitute for to- 1 bacco. The ancient cabbage-leaf assumption
 is popular delusion. In England, however, five or six years ago prepared cherry leaves ] were largely used an adulteration; but, in order to obtain narcotic effect, the manufac- turers used opium, and the government
 broke up the business by stringent laws
 against such adulterations l know of no l other instance of the sort in cigar manufac-
 ture, though have detected deliberations in
 smoking tobaccos.
 "I cannot name all of the substances
 used in lavoring tobacco. Every manu-
 facturer has formulse suited to his par
 ticular trade. There are some havors
 which are in regular use. Among these
 vanilla is by far the most exten-
 sively employed. This is used only in the