try is divided into two branches, which the revenue laws of the United States require to be kept distinct and separate, as follows:

I. The manufacture of cigars and cigarettes, consuming about 30 per cent of the domestic leaf produced.

II. The manufacture of smoking and chewing tobacco and snuff. (Chewing tobacco consists of plug and fine cut.)

The ratio of increase in manufactures has been greater of recent years in the cigar and cigarette industry than in that of chewing, smoking, and snuffing. This may be seen by comparing the respective manufactures for the years 1870 and 1880, as follows:

In 1870, quantity manufactured tobacco, estimated by the revenue returns (in round numbers)...

In 1880, quantity manufactured, a little over.

An increase of, say, 50 per cent over 1870.

In 1870, cigars manufactured.....

cigarettes manufactured.

Making together but little over.

In 1880, cigars manufactured..

cigarettes manufactured...

Making together almost..

Pounds.

90,000,000 136,000,000

1, 139, 470, 774 13,881, 417 1, 153, 000, 000 2,367,803, 248

408, 708, 366 2,876,000,000

Being nearly two and a half times as many as in 1870; and the relative increase has continued to swell in favor of cigars and cigarettes since 1880, particularly in the case of cigarettes.

The proportion used in the manufactured tobacco in the year 1880 were as follows:

In addition to the domestic leaf embraced in the foregoing statistics of manufacture several millions of pounds of imported leaf are annually manufactured, an average of 8,000,000 pounds per annum for the decade preceding the census of 1880. Varieties and Distribution.-The heavy tobacco, such as is grown in Virginia and Maryland, constituted until recent years the principal production of the country. Within the past thirty years the seed-leaf or cigar tobacco of Connecticut and Massachusetts has increased four-fold. The seed-leaf culture has been wonderfully stimulated in the two States named, and also in Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, and Missouri, and to some extent in a few other States. Connecticut has held the foremost place in the seed-leaf production, though it is said to have deteriorated in that State in the last few years. The Connecticut leaf is of large size, light color, delicate fiber, and good flavor.

For some years the Pennsylvania seed-leaf, which is darker and coarser than the Connecticut, has grown in popularity, and now occupies the first position as to amount manufactured. That grown in Lancaster County is regarded as especially superior, and the yield is probably larger than that of the same variety (i. e., seedleaf) in any county in the United States.

The Ohio seed-leaf is considerable in quantity, and annually increasing, but it is. not regarded as equal to that of Pennsylvania and Connecticut for manufacture. It is a dry tobacco, and on that account particularly suitable for exportation.

The disposition of the manufacturers seems to be to encourage the production of the fresh soil of the Western States as superior to that of the lands of the old States that have been for so many years subjected to this exhausting crop. That grown