The evening times., 1900-01-05

however. was that they were 'blawsted
beastly," and the experiment has not been
repeated. Better success has been attained
with the Western tobaccos.
Many man on Broadway. putting con-
tentedly at a two-for- quarter import
ed is in reality getting smoke out Of a
filler grown in Crawford county, Wis, a
binder grown in Ohio. and wrapper grown
in Florida The imitation of the Cuban
hand made articles now turned out in
American factories from American tobacco
is really remarkable. but, as il is one OF
the secrets Of the trade, no especial printed
commentator OF it is asked.
The Florida Product.
The tobacco now grown extensively in
Florida, from Cuban seedlings, has every
characteristic of the genuine Havahe$e
plant. except fragrance and flavor. In ap-
pearauce it is identical, and is therefore
used for covering. 1t is a feature OF the
pure Havana tobacco cigar that when light
ed it shows a pale yellowish ring Just above
the ash, and the Florida counterfeit VIII
do this also. Therefore he must be an cld
smoker who is able 10 tell when he is Delh6
buncoed in the cigar-shop these days
Down in Ohio, since the establishment Vi
the Weyler embargo, they have teen 81 TO"
ing a plant known to the trade as ZlmIlef ;
Spanish, and there is great demand III
it among factory men. 1t looks IKE Cuoah
tobacco and often tastes something ike IT,
though the Ohio climate has made modi-
fcations in the texture and flavor OF the
Seeding leaf which came originally from
Cuba.
II helps to make handsome cigar, no"
ever. and is used generally for 0lnderS'
or the case which encloseS the hller OF
central part of the cylinder. The NlScoh-
sin tobacco produces a great many snort
leaves which are sorted carefully. Ihey
are known technically as BIS OF
bees as ii is sometimes spelled. They
are also used for binders and some ot the
makers prefer them to thinner 5 Spanish
The great increase in the tobacco acre
age of the United States has been torceu
bv the manufacturers. who had to nave
something with which TO work. They couiu
have got along with the native STOCK Oh
hand and importation of Sumatra and Ma
Mia and Mexican stuff if all smokers were
alike but there are large numbers OF the
consumers of cigars who demand great
deal of body. They want strength as Neil
as flavor and strength is the conspicuous
quality lacking in all the cigar tobaccos
produced in foreign countries other than
Cuba.
In Mexico a cigar is sometimes prepared
from half-cured stock and il rasps the in
side of the mouth like file but when
the Vera Cruz tobaccos have been properly
sWeated they lose muscle 4 burner OF
strong tobacccs will. puff away all day at
the Manilan article. and never know that
he has had a smoke. and this is true also
of a straight Sumatran rope though it is
seldom met with almost the entire product
of that island being taken for wrappers.
OF late some tobaccos planted in Texas
because of Weyler. have given promise OF
the proper strength and appearance.
The Havana Output.
II is given out by buyers through this
region that the present crop in Cuba Will
he 50 much larger than was expected a
year ago that the stringency in Havana
stock will Doe much relieved. II IS notice
able however. that there has been no
siackeuing in the demand for Wisconsin
stuff. The truth probably is that the man
Ufacturers have attained such perfection in
creating Havana cigars" out of American
material that they wish to keep it up, es-
pecially as il means money to them. This
may work some hardship upon the Cuban
planters who. since the ending OF the war.
have increased their acreage by more than
500 per cent above the acreage which OBJ
tained during the closing years Of their
revolution.
II is a contention Of Americans that Hav-
ana cigars-that is genuine Havana Gig
are-made by them are apt 10 be better
than the output of the makers located in
Cuba. because they have a better way OF
buyiug II is the habit OF the Latin Ameri-
can maker 10 buy his tobacco always from
the same district. If4he has begun as a
patron of the growers In the Nuelta AbajO
district and has made a reputation for his
goods he will continue to buy from them
so long as he is in the business. regardless
of climatic or crop conditions.
As Cuba is a pretty big country, there
is apt to be wide divergence in the crops
of the various districts in any one year
In 1895 the Abaio product may have been
superior and in 1929 the palm may have
gone TO some other part of the island. but
these shifungs of quality make 10 differ
ence to the manufacturer who has a plant
in Cuba. The Americans, on the contrary
sending their samplers to the island regu-
larry. buy in the districts wherein the judg-
ment of their men tells them that the best
quality of Tobacco is to be found.
They contend. also. that a cigar made OF
pure Cuban tobacco in Key West is just as
good as a cigar made of pure Cuban tobacco
in Havana. or, on account of superior work
manship and environment, may even be
little better. They take no stock in the
theory that the tobacco must be rolled in
the atmosphere in which it was grown and
must then be subjected to a voyage around
the world in the hold of sailing ship be
fore il reaches perfection.
The farmers of the Northwest who have
gone in for tobacco-raisfng are apt to con-
tinue at it, because it pays them better
than corn or wheat, oats. rye. or barley.
The average money product TO the acre
is $95 and small grains have TO be at a
soaring figure before any such sum can be
realized from them. The return of Wiscon
sin tobacco in pounds to the acre is be-
tween 200 and 800.
The amount of planting TO farm Will
not often exceed ten acres. From five 10
seven acres is the usual amount Like cot
ton in the South, the crop is held to be
ready money, in that it can be converted
into cash as soon as it is partially cured in
the Tobacco shed. The producer sells it and
pockets his check without moving from his
own land, and $500. money down. TO a Nor
wegian settler. is a fortune. He will get
more out of it than an ordinary city man
will get out of five times that sum.
FITTING OUT IN BALTIMORE.
several Revenue and Coast Survey