_Bourbon._—Efforts are being made to successfully introduce tobacco into the rotation of crops on the sugar estates, with the object of supplying the article to the French _régie_ or Government monopoly, which buys annually upwards of 40 million francs’ worth of tobacco in the islands of Cuba, Java, and other colonies. The results hitherto obtained are not unsatisfactory, and this article may shortly acquire importance among Bourbon products. The exports in 1884 were 10,185 _kilo._, value 61,110 _fr._ _Brazil._—In Brazil, tobacco is chiefly cultivated in the provinces of Bahia, Minas, Sao Paulo, and Para. The town of Purificaçao, in Bahia, is the centre of an important district. The cultivation is increasing, and greater care is being taken in the preparation. The common up-country method is to pick the leaves from the stalks, dry them under the hut-roofs, remove the midribs, and spread them in superposed layers, amounting to 2–8 lb., for rolling together and binding with bark strips. These rolls are bound very tightly with cord, and left for several days, when the cord is replaced by strips of _jacitára_, the split stem of a climbing palm (_Desmoncus sp. div._), and have a stick-like form 1½ inch in diameter. They are sold in _masas_ of 4–6 feet in length, but the tobacco is not considered good till it has fermented for 5–6 months, when it is hard and black, and shaved off as required for pipes, cigarettes, and cigars, the last made with wrappers of _tauari_ bark (_Couratari guianensis_). The Tapajos tobacco is considered the finest in the Amazon valley. The export of tobacco from Bahia in 1877–8 was 17,272,678 _kilo._, and in 1878–9, 18,149,201 _kilo._, almost the whole being to Germany. Santos, in 1878–9, shipped 381,310 _kilo._ Bahia sends away immense numbers of cigars coastwise. Maceio exported 4336_l._ worth in 1876, but none in 1879.