Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-02
TOBACCO.
The Crop of the United States
Simply Enormous.
In 1889 1t Amounted to Over
244,OOO Tons.

OF This Kentucky Alone Produced A5.44
Per Acre S50.2 Tobacco
the Most Valuable, Averaging e5.a
Cents Per Pound.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.-The census
Office has issued bulletin giving the
statistics of the tobacco production in
the United States during the year 1899.
The bulletin states that tobacco is
produced to greater or less extent i'll
forty-two states and territories, the only
non-producing states being Idaho, Ne
vada, Rhode Island and Wyoming, and
the non-producing territories Oklahoma
and Utah.
The entire crop of the country
amounted in 1889 to 4SS, 800, ,S96 pounds,
the number of planters being 205, soy,
and the area devoted to tobacco culture,
exclusive of counties cultivating less
than one acre, 692 900 acres, or 1,0S2
square miles The area in cultivation
was, however, very unequally dis
tributed, Kentucky having 39.62 per
cent. of the total acreage and producing
45. A per cent. of the entire crop, and
the six states next in rank of production
50 16 per cent. of the acreage and 42.49
per cent. of the crop, while the twenty
states and territories having the smallest
production had less than 300 acres IN
tobacco and yielded an aggregate of
only 451 1925 pounds or less than one
tenth of per cent.
The average production per acre of
the entire country was 150pounds, rang
,,,re hn fufn
ducing 100000 pounds or upward,
from S54 pounds per acre in Ohio 60
,402 pounds per acre in Connecticut
and 375 pounds per acre in North Caro-
lima to $50 pounds per acre in Missouri.
The total value of the crop to the pro-
ducers, estimated on the basis of actual
sales. was 1874, ,S44, ,449, an average of IL
cents per pound, or $50.2S per acre. The
average price per pound received by the
producer in states producing 5000, 900
pounds or upward ranged from 40 cents
in Missouri and A. cents in Maryland to
1873 cents in Connecticut and l4.2 cents
in North Carolina. The product of
Louisiana averages 25.2 cents per pound
to the producer.
Although the total reported acreage
in tobacco shows an increase of S.4S per
cent. upon that in lS79 there is a de-
crease of 1891 in the number of tobacco
producing counties, there being now
only 1,674 as compared with l,165 in
1879. 1t is likewise worthy of ncte that
the proportion borne by the crop of
Kentucky to the entire production of
the country is steadily increasing, hav-
ing advanced from 24.90per cent. in 1889
and 1920 per cent. in 1879 to 45.44 per
cent. in 1888 as already stated.
The leading tobacco producing county
of the entire country is Lancaster coun-
ty Pa, which yielded in 1899, 1927, 800
pounds. Christian and Henderson coun-
ties, KY, each produced over 10,000,0 900
pounds, as did also Dane county, Wis,
and Pittsylvania county, Va, and seven
teen other counties in Kentucky, pro-
duced between 5000, 600 and 10000, 900
pounds each
The final report on tobacco will treat
OF the progress and present condition of
the industry of home and foreign
markets, the distribution Of exports, etc,
and will also contain statements by lead
ing tobacco producers throughout the
country as to the cultivation, curing
and marketing of leaf tobacco, the va
rieties most profitable for cultivation.
in production, diseased and
other destructive agencies, the effects OF
etc.