Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-04-26
MARYLAND TOBACCO CRoP.-A connrer,o,

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i An egregous error has been pointed out to ms
by several of our contemporaries, and by lette,
received this morning, dated Piscataway, in the
statement which we made OH the 9Th instant I'm.
der the head "Value of the Produce OF different
states, This statement was made on the autho-
rlty OF the annual report of the Commissioner OF
Patents. We have referred to this report and find
that we were correct when stated that the esti-
mated crop of Tobacco in Maryland for 1914 was
therein said to be not much over half million
OF pounds" In tabular statement given at page
~ OF the printed document the tobacco crop OF
Maryland Tor 1874 is estimated as having been
$4,000 pounds. We were, therefore, correct in
our quotation; but we admit that had we given the
matter due thought we should have perceived that
there was an error, although we might not have
had the means at hand of correcting it. The error
in the printed report is not typographical one, as
our correspondent suggests unless the amount Of to-
bacco assigned to Maryland has been transferred
from some other State, for the total amount of the
column shows the right figures have been inserted,
although they may not be in their proper position.
At page l0l Of the Patent Office report it is said
/" Maryland is a large tobacco-growing Snte."|
Now, certainly, crop of $4,000 pounds only
would not entitle her to that distinction. The tabu-
lar statement at page II appears to be at variance
with the statement at page los, where it is said
that SAILOR hogsheads of Maryland tobacco were
inspected at Baltimore in 1874 " this, at an average
of 700 pounds per hogshead, would amount to
ZOO pounds-a quantity scarcely likely to
have been inspected had the crop of 1874 been less
than fortieth part of it. Another discrepancy is
visible between the aggregate Of the tabular state
ment at page IL, viz. ISL ,705,000 pounds, and
that at page l04, where it is said !" the whole to-
bacco crop of the United States for 1874 we sup
pose may be fixed at 100, 100000 pouuds.' There
is difference of 100000 pounds weight, which
may possibly belong to Maryland.
We will not, however, undertake to correct the
error which there evidently is in the tabular state
ment, but we tender an apology to our readers for
having heedlessy adopted it.
The Census for 1910 stated the crop Of Mary
land tobacco for that year at "a ,sl6,0l2 pounds of
which Prince Georges county produced 9,259, 423
pounds. Our friend from Piscataway states the
average annual crop of the State as being about
25,O00,0OO pounds.
The amount of the Corn crop of Tennessee is
also supposed to be enormously stated. NE are
correct IN our quotation from the printed document
which makes il TO be 6l,lO0,000 bushels. Gu,
correspondent founds his opinion upon the fact
that corn is not the leading profitable crop of
Tennessee, for she raises both cotton and tobacco
on large scale. Therefore, it would appear to
be almost impossible that she should SO far exceed
Kentucky, Ohio, and other States in the corn
crop, SO disproportionate in amount to her popu-
ation, or to any profitable to which it can be
applied; for, from her position among her sister
States, il must be chiefly for home consumption"