The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1883-12-12
ATurklsh Tohaceo rnrm.

faced, robust, well-made man, sixty |
years old, who looked ten years young
err, and whose smiling face seemed to
say chat care, which to % true MOham-
mcdan is sin, had never cast upon him
it's oppressive shadow. With the pro.
verbal politeness of the Turk we were
welcomed and shown mp into q room
destitute of either chairs or sofas. with
the floor strewn with carpets on which,
round the sides, are couches with low
cushions Squalting on q couch, we
receive cigarettes and coffee, and the
host brings us a bowl containing some
of his fresh tobacco cut bv him to test
the quality of the new crop. With
pride he dwells upon its excellent per-
fume and the connoisseurs who accom-
pany me test it by the eve and the nose
before bringing it TO the test of the pal
ate. lt is declared an excellent crop,
TO the evident delight Of the worthy
cultivator. We then descend to the
court yard full of tobacco leaves drying
in the sun. These leaves are plucked
from the plant according to their class
(fOr each stem contains five classes of
leavesl before the heat of the midday
sun, and, as plucked, the leaves from
each plant are left in a little heap upon
the ground under the shade of the
plant When the days plucking is
completed, the pluckers go round, and,
gathering up all the little heaps, take
them home, where they are placed leaf
above leaf against the inner wall of a
shed in q row of about nine inches
| high by about the same broad Three
days they so lie until the extra moisture
. nm HLsn| loo "a q
got to the ground. Then q worker,
most frequently girl or boy, seated on
the ground, passes the leaves one by
one upon a needle fifteen inches long,
| hree-edged, and threaded with q cord.
| When the whole surface of the needle
| is covered he draws it through, and
goes on until he has covered a cord of
about twelve feet i'm length These
! cords are suspended in the open air
| upon wooden frames each cord apart,
! about nine inches from the other and
! thus suspended they remain for about
| fifteen days exposed to the sun and air
until they are so crisp that the leaves
/ break to tie touch. The frames, rods
and hooks are ingeniOusly constructed,
all of wood of natural form and dimen-
sions, not touched by plane, and all
the work of the peasant Near by, un-
der a shed, is place ready upon which
the rods with suspended leaves can rap
idly be transferred in the event of rain.
When the leaves are sufficiently dried
5he cords and leaves are removed to the
ceiling of the adjoining shed and
hung from wooden hooks about q foot
apart, the two ends of the cord having
been tied, and the circle thus formed
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constantly turned me fermentatior
o-a1. oboJ,t tba middle of NTo,, tbo to
bacco is readv for deIiverv Ntarcbont.
in Xantbi Wait ifs delivery With in,rs
tiancn and in fayv n,ontbs bordl,, on,
,or,oins il, tho bon5s of the cnIti,-S to,.s
Tho nocl-ogas nc received Inv tba 'TneI,
chants are 'onanad and coref,II,, olossi
6ad info three coterorias A II and q
The Austrian-H HunTarian Pe1io racai-
nearly n tbird of tba whole o.o,, ON,
tbe rest is distributed amono tbe ofhe
countries of the world Russio gptfin,
the larrest share But before il reacbp
tbeyast majority of smokers tbe cboic
leaves are mixed with ,.Kfrcbi Yalla.
and even inferior qualities. and if ma
be questioned whether 100 smoker
abroad enjoy the unmived article
When it is mentioned that the hes
leaves are only from three to five incbe
in length, and that a cord of ther
twelve feet in length only weighs
pound and four-ffths, some conceptio
may be formed of the myriads c
leaves which have three times passed
one bv one, through the hands of tn
! workers. 1t is a work of patience. b,
il has its reward.
Notwithstanding the great evcelIenc
of those choice t0bacoSs to-dor tbog
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.oe1-,o,gyIs6rrs +bot tboi,. ,,Slif,, bas +,
ferioratad sincs tIen Tbo Ne S,Tso n,s w
. tL,s deteriorotior, ,yas oosiI,- o,-,,Iai,,a
to me Fncon79 oad bv bio,5 ,,1.ifos l,s'r'~ ON
o, irereosi,i5. Ja,,,aId d,,iti,,otnl
bsva gradnoIIv 6aen ovtendi,o tbo
cTltnrse outside of fbe favored 3aIt ,
, land This evtension Is onJv to n
4 deterioration is sufficient to be obser,
! able. This slightly deteriOrated DR.