Tobacco: Growing, Curing, & Manufacturing: A Handbook for Planters in All Parts of the World
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Tobacco: Growing, Curing, & Manufacturing: A Handbook for Planters in All Parts of the World
Tobacco; Tobacco industry
The approximate relative values in the London market are as
follows:—Maryland, fine yellow, fine, and good coloured, 7–9½_d._ a lb.;
colory, 5–7_d._; light-brown and leafy, 5–(7½)_d._; ordinary and brown,
4–4½_d._ Virginia: Fine Irish and Scotch spinners, 7–10_d._; good and
middling, ordinary light and dry, 6–10_d._; fine black sweet scent, and
middling do., (6½)–(7½)_d._; part blacks, 5–6_d._; ordinary and heated,
3–5_d._; mixed parcels, ordinary and good, middling and fine,
(5½)–(6½)_d._; stripped leaf, 4_d._–1_s._ Kentucky: fine long light
leaf, 7–11_d._; good to middling do., (5½)-(7½)_d._; fine and middling
blacks, 6–8_d._; ordinary and mixed, 2–5_d._; stripped leaf, fine, light
leafy, middling and ordinary, (4½)–11_d._ Negrohead, 11_d._–1_s._ 6_d._
Cavendish, 4½_d._–1_s._ Amersfort and German, 2¾_d._–1_s._ 6_d._ St.
Domingo, 5–(7½)_d._ Havana, Cuba, and Yara, 1_s._ 2_d._–6_s._ Turkish
and Greek, (2½)–9_d._ E. India, Japan, and China, 2–9_d._ Java,
5_d._–2_s._ Colombia (New Granada), 5_d._–2_s._ 6_d._ Manilla,
8_d._–4_s._ Manilla cheroots, 4_s._–7_s._ 6_d._ Havana cigars, 5–40_s._
_Imports, Duties, and Values._—Our imports of tobacco in 1879 were as
follows:—
(_a_) Unmanufactured: From United States, 25,743,880 lb., value
682,253_l._; Holland, 6,215,930 lb., 266,109_l._; China, 1,444,192 lb.,
36,265_l._; Turkey, 1,214,319 lb., 32,627_l._; Japan, 805,928 lb.,
24,003_l._; France, 651,350 lb., 14,585_l._; Belgium, 515,009 lb.,
15,501_l._; Argentine Republic, 470,309 lb., 10,870_l._; Germany,
426,139 lb., 25,602_l._; Straits Settlements, 267,258 lb., 29,718_l._;
British India, 246,305 lb., 3605_l._; New Granada, 241,638 lb.,
9621_l._; Canada, 121,920 lb., 3473_l._; other countries, 497,043 lb.,
14,256_l._; total, 38,861,220 lb., 1,165,488_l._
(_b_) Snuff: From all countries, 7719 lb., value 92_l._
(_c_) Cigars: From Spanish W. Indies, 495,518 lb., value 494,974_l._;
Germany, 150,460 lb., 46,318_l._; Holland, 116,218 lb., 31,348_l._;
Philippines, 80,199 lb., 21,738_l._; France, 73,348 lb., 24,071_l._;
Straits Settlements, 51,191 lb., 13,822_l._; China, 48,762 lb.,
11,240_l._; Belgium, 46,536 lb., 14,211_l._; British India, 33,208 lb.,
10,898_l._; United States, 14,625 lb., 5461_l._; other countries, 43,978
lb., 19,184_l._; total, 1,154,043 lb., 693,265_l._
(_d_) Cavendish or Negrohead: From United States, 2,247,557 lb., value
84,422_l._; other countries, 45,052 lb., 1964_l._; total, 2,292,609 lb.,
86,386_l._
(_e_) Cavendish, manufactured in bond: 33,069 lb., 7126_l._
(_f_) Other sorts, including cigarettes: From United States, 52,206 lb.,
value 7999_l._; Holland, 25,273 lb., 1372_l._; Channel Islands, 15,470
lb., 1279_l._; Germany, 14,474 lb., 4472_l._; France, 9497 lb.,
2368_l._; Belgium, 7939 lb., 2086_l._; other countries, 12,328 lb.,
3845_l._; total, 137,187 lb., 23,421_l._
Following are statistics of the imports of tobacco for the year 1884,
being the latest available.
UNMANUFACTURED TOBACCO.
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