' In view of the very large quality of
material not tobacco such as sugar and
licorice that our friends in other States
mix with the raw material to make
their chewing tobacco palatable and
salable, may we not infer that their
soil and climate are not so favorable
) as our own to the production of the
1 J finer nnalitire of tnharr.o: and it will
not be amiss to repeat what has been
said here before, that "North Carolina
is to-day without a peer, pre-eminently
the tobacco State of the world, for
high grade goods, yet, however, well
known is this fact to those present, it
is far less widely known than many
suppose. North Carolina soil is every
where generous to the tobacco plant."
One or two other States grow a
greater quantity in lbs., but the money
value of the crop, according to the
number of lbs. produced, exceed that
of any State. Within her borders is
produced such a variety of high grade
leaf and in such quantities as is no
where else to be found the world over.
Upon her high type of cutting leaf,
the great cigarette business of the
world was built up. Her unsurpassed
smokers produced in the Golden Belt
placed her granulated tobacco at a
premium over all others. Her ma
hogany types ot fillers and wrappers,
are, by chewers of tobaccos, every
where preferred. Thus all the higher
types of tobacco are indigenous to North
Carolina soil. Here is their native
home."
TOBACCO MANUFACTURE IN NORTH
CAROLINA.
