Show uncle sam looks up turkish cigarettes A OR the benefit of people who have F FOR developed a great fondness for the so called turkish and egyptian cigarettes the state department at washington has made an of the tobacco industries of the east practically all of the turkish tobacco cornea comes from samsoun in the district of large quantities of the ond tobacco are sold by the turkish growers to egypt where it Is used to brighten the tobacco obtained from other parts of turkey the ond tobacco according to the united states consular agents Is weak has very little littie aroma and large vory very light colored leaves which do not keep well the samsoun and batra tobaccos coa cos are stronger have more aroma do not bite the tongue and have small darte leaves the most moat aromatic aorta are arc what aro are called marden and dere the country where tho the best turkish tobacco Is grown la Is a low mountainous region bordering the south shore ehora ot of the black sea the tobacco Is ia grown like the grapes on tho the slopes or of the hills and the climate Is always humid A clear sky and bright sun are extremely rare the methods of tobacco culture are primitive and much Is leatto chance and nature no systematic rotation of crops Is practiced no scientific fertilizing and there ts la little cultivation tn in ond the average yield la Is about pounds of tobacco per acre the leaves are put on strings each quality by itself and hung on poles in the open air then when dry they are put into a swea sweathouse A good deal of the turkish tobacco la Is made up in hungary for the american cigarette trade in one factory in clune hungary in the last year dg cig arestes were manufactured some of the tobacco came from brazil java and sumatra |