The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-05-25
TOBACCO STATISTICS.
EXTENT OF CULTIVATION
OF THE WEED.
Figures Showing the Value of the
Product in the Various States
---1nstructive Facts Relative to
the Acreage inIEach State, Mum
ber Of Pounds Per Acre, Etc.
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production in the United States. The
figures showing the production Of to-
bacco and the value of the same in
the various State and counties in the
years 1859, so, '79 and '89 are
valuable as an exhibit of the rapid
increase in tobacco culture from de-
cade to decade, and we offer no
apology tor using the editorial space
to furnish carefully prepared COM
plication of facts gathered after
laborlous study of the bulletin.
The report for 1889 is based upon
the returns of the census enumerators,
supplemented by an extensive cores
pondence and by Investigations in the
field conducted by Professor Thomas
N. Conrad, special agent.
This report shows
that tobacco of one sort or another is
produced, to Il greater or less extent, in
~ States and territories, the only non
producing States being Idaho, Nevada,
Rhode Island, and Wyoming, the non
producing territories, OaklahOma and
Utah.
| The entire crop of the country amount
ed in 1899 to 4SS, ,255, 1896 pounds, the
number of planters being 2O5,S62, and
| the area devoted to culture, exclusive
OF counties cultivating less than | acre.
692 800 acres, or ,OS2 80 square miles.
The area in cultivation was, however,
very unequalIy distributed, Kentucky
having 1902 per cent. of the total acre
age and producing 1914 per cent. of
the entire crop, and the States next in
rank of production 80. .16 per cent OF the
acreage and 42.49 per cent. of the crop,
while the 20 States and territories hav-
ing the smallest production had less than
900 acres in tobacco and yielded an ag-
gregate of only 451 ,O25 pounds, or less
than one tenth of per cent. of the entire
crop.
The average production per acre of the
entire country was 1O5 pounds, ranging
among the seed leaf states producing
1900, 900 pounds or upward from S54
pounds per acre in Ohio to ,4O2 pounds
per acre in Connecticut, and in the more
important of the states in which the
manufacturing and export varieties pre-
dominate from 375 pounds per acre in
North Carolina to $50 pounds per acre
i'll Missouri
Nirginia's average per acre was 430
pounds.
The average area cultivated by each
planter was 3.37 acres, and the aver
age production of each planter 2,372
pounds.
In Virginia the average area cul-
tivated by each planter was 4.51
acres.
The total value of the crop to the
producers, estimated on the basis of
actual sales, was s34,S44,44o, an
average Of IL cents per pound, or
s5o.2S per acre.
The average result per acre in the
whole state of Virginia $50, and in
Pittsyivania s54.
The average price per pound re-
ceived by the producer in states pro-
ducing 5 100000 pounds or upward
ranged from As cents in Missouri,
and Al cents in Maryland to 1913
cents in Connecticut and 14.2 cents
in North Carolina.
The average price received by the
producer in Virginia was fraction
under 9 cents and in Pittsylvania
county it was s1o.a5.
The leading tobacco-producing
county of the entire country is Lam
caster county, Pennsylvania, which
yielded in 1880 19,c17,Soo pounds,
worth sI,549,o9o to the producers.
Christian and Henderson counties,
Kentucky, each produced over 49,
100000 pounds, as did also Dane
county, Wisconsin, and Pittsylvania
county, Virginia. Seventeen other
counties, nine of which are in Ken
lucky, produced between 100000
and 10000, 900 pounds each.
The average price paid the producer
in Lancaster county, Pa, was s1.42
cents per hundred pounds; in Dane
county, Wis, SI.52; in Christian and
Henderson counties, Kentucky, 81 IS,
while the price realized in Pittsylvania
county, as shown above, was SIo.25.
, Thus it will be seen that while one
county in the United States nearly
doubles Pittsylvanla county in pounds.
and three 1.-TWO in Kentucky and one
in Wisconsin, beat her a few thousand
. pounds, yet the money value of Pttsyl
vania tobacco crop exceeds that O.
any county in the United States, anc
in this sense she is the banner tobacco
county Of the world.
> The accurate tobacco statistics pub
t lished from month to month and yea
u to year in the Register show that tn,
{ year 1850, from which the above
0 census figures were taken, was " hare
tobacco year. in Virginia.
>, The following additional statistic:
" taken from the census bulletin art
interesting and worthy of the study O
N N tobacco men generality:
l. Kentucky has tobacco planters, 6I,
h. 64I; acres in tobacco, a74,ss7; pound
Il, Il; produced in 1880, 2e1,SSo, 3o3; valu
D. D. of same, sIs,155,297, average pc
IS acre, Sos pounds.
n Virginia: Planters, 24,oS4; acres
III IIo,579; pounds produced, 4S,522,
TO 655; value, s4.S25.64o; average pc
a. acre, 439 pounds.
North Carolina Planters, 27,25c
acres, o7,o77; pounds produced sc,
s. 375,25S; value, s5,175,SS3; averag
es per acre, 575 pounds.
in These are the three largest tobacc