" After a short time they
begin to smell strong and taste bitter. They are then stripped from the
stems very carefully and sorted. The leaves nearest the root are considered
the poorest, those at the top generally the best.
The different sorts are packed in separate hogsheads, and sent away to be
sold to manufacturers of cigars, snuff, etc.
The manufacturer has some leaves rolled into cigars, some pressed into
cakes for chewing, or into little pieces to be smoked in a pipe; while some
are ground for snuff. While the dried leaves are being rolled, pressed, or
ground, various substances are mixed with them to give them an agreeable
odor and pleasant taste.
Yet, however pleasant the manufacturer may make them as he rolls, presses,
or grinds, he cannot take the poison out of them. It remains in its brown
covering to do much harm to those who may smoke the cigars, use the snuff,
or chew the tobacco.
BLACKBOARD OUTLINE.
THE TOBACCO PLANT.
NATIVE OF FOUND BY TAKEN TO GROWS IN THE
America. Columbus, 1492. Portugal, Torrid and
1496. temperate zones.
France, 1560.
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