The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-09-09
FARM and Aousrhul&.
Tobacco statistics.

4 correspondent II the RUW Ncw Yorker
contributes tho following valuable sta.
tistics respecting tho staple, Tobacco
propose TO offer few remarks upon
tho subject of tobacco. in a commercial and
financial point of view aud before proceed.
ing to de- 40 will premise Ivy saying that
| deem it u torcgonc conclusion that t,bncco
will be used, and must be paid for, and con.
seluently ii our farmers can make it profit
able see no good reason why they should
not raise it. am aware that this thesis
has been, and perhaps will again be, bitterly
assailcd by rciurmcrs but it IS ncNcrtho.
less undcniablc truth, an ~ such will
Withstand the whirlwinl Of all th' assaults
that can be brought against it. Until it
has bccn proven that cbnsum'rs OF tobacco
are sinners, either against the laws of Got
or man, | shall not condemn the weed as
contraband.'
II is perhaps not generally ma lcrstood To
how great an extent the article ul tobacco
cntors into the commerce of our country.
According to the census ol $50 its produce
ton in the year previous amounted to no
less than four hundred aul twcnty.nnc
millions. thrcc hundred and ninety thousand
seven hundred and scvcnty.onc pounds
(i29 3907Il lbs.). Now, computing its
value at 40 cctts pound, which is per.
haps 4 fair average for all its qualities in
the manufactured state, tho value OF the
tobacco crop of that year would hc uo less
than Sl7l ,T56 ,303 II. \ glance at another
column shows that the wheat crop Ut tho
Unitcd States for the same year WIS III .
lS3,3Sl bushels. So it will appear that
the tobacco crop of thu, year would pm
rl,aso the cntiro wheat crop of that season,
a. 4 4. .. 1 II
bushcl aud have u surplus fund of SjI2
997 10. Daniel Webster is said to have
once remarked that ono years failure ol
the turnip crop OF England would over.
throw the Government of that country
II 30, what would he the consequences to
our country, shoul the tobacco crop for
ono season be destroyed
will next pro luce a nut Tor our tobacco
rcformcrs to crack The amount of wheat
ct the United States shown 10y the consu4
Wt 1850, was l00,isj.9ti bushels that OF
1860, as stated, was III 49,, ,3Sl showing
an increase in tho last decalc of say 20 per
cent. The tobacco of 1850 was 90, 1872 6iJ
and of 1860 it was i29 39O,7 III showing
tho increase on tobacco to have boon | / -,
por cent. So wo have in ten years an in
crease on tobacco of Ia per mt, against
an increase OF 20 per cent. on wheat dWmg
the same period. This is certainly somc
what remarkable, whom we take into con
sideration tho fact that wheat is AN almost
indispensable article OF foo l. aud the great
staple Of the Northern Statcs--while the usC
of tobacco might, to great extent, ho dis
pensed with.
Ard now | will ask tho tobacco rororm
ers If these figures do not 20 far to prov,
tho truth of my tormor remark, that tho
prejudice, If wo may so cali it, in favor OF
tobacco, has flourshod remarkably under
your opposition. But whcrc docs our to
bacco como fromp and where must it come
from for some years to come? Abou
scven-eishths is produced in the Slave State,
and about ono.oighth in the FREQ States.