Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1908 — Tobacco in the Philippines. [ARTICLE]

Tobacco in the Philippines.

,ob*rc> iw the fourth largest export of the Philippines, while to point of total crop value it is only exceeded by hemp and rice. The main tobacco belt fs embraced In Luzon, Cebu and Paady, tbe famous Cagayan Valley, £q F.uzyn. producing the bulk of the finer grades. Considered as a manufacture the making of cigars and cigarets is the largest industry in the iatood today.