The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-06-20
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tobacco crop OF the United States In
1917 was 1,196,45l 900 pounds. The
leading tobacco states ana the esti-
mated amounts grown by them are as
follows: Kentucky, 426,6O0,00
pounds; North Carolina, 204 O75O,0O0
pounds; Virginia, 129,500,0O0 pounds;
Ohio, 99,O72,0OO pounds; Tennessee,
S1,S10,000 pounds; Pennsylvania, S.
100000 pounds; South Carolina, 51,-
100000 pounds; Wisconsin. 1885, 900
pounds; Connecticut, 20,540,000; and
Maryland, 22,594,000 pounds. The
acreage estimated for these states
ranged from 474,0O0 for Kentucky to
$1,000 for Connecticut, and the pro-
duction per acre, from 1.400 pounds
for Connecticut and Pennsylvania to
$50 pounds for North Carolina. The
higher yields are obtained, as rule,
in the localities producing the high
priced types used in the manufacture
of cigars.
during the past three-quarters of a.
century the growth in tobacco pro-
duction in the United States has not
quite kept pare with that in popula-
ton; the estimated tobacco crop Of
1917 being about five and half times
as great as the crop of 1888, as as
certained at the census. Of 1910, the
earliest at which statistics of tobacco
production were obtained, whereas
the estimated population of the coun-
try for 1917 was slightly more than
six times as great as the population
shown by the census of 1910.
Virginia was the greatest tobacco
growing state prior to the Civil War,
but since that period Kentucky has
led in this respect. Though at the
last census the production of tobacco
was reported for 1858 counties in As
states, nearly one-fourth of the crop
(23.5 per cent? was grown in the fol-
lowing IA counties, each of which re-
ported more than 10,OOO,OOO pounds:
Lancaster, Pa; Hartford, Conn;
Pittsylvania, Va. Dane, Wis; Halifax
Va; Darke, Ohio; Daviess, KY; Mont
gomery, Ohio; Robertson, Tenn;
Christian, Ky; Graves, KY; Mont
gomery, Tenn; Pitt, N. c., and Hen
derson, Ky.
Worlds Production
The total worlds average produc-
ton of tobacco during the period i'm
mediately preceding the war is esti-
mated at 4,197 100000 pounds annual
ly. OF this, Continental United States
produced approximately 1,000,OO0,OOO
pounds; British India, 100000, 900
pounds; China, 5OO,OO0,OOO pounds
European Russia, 230O0O,O00 pounds
Dutch East Indies, 200,00O,0 00
pounds; Austria-Hungary, 170.OOO,OOO
pounds; Japan, 12O.OOO,0O0 pounds
Philippines, 1O0,OO0,00O pounds; and
Brazil, 100,0O0.OOO pounds. The tota
for these countries amounts to 1920.
900 pounds, or 81 per cent of the tota
for the world.
Tobacco Prices
According to data compiled by the
Bureau of Crop Estimates of the De-
partment of Agriculture, the average
farm price of tobacco throughout the
United States on December 1, 1917
was 24.9 cents pound, or more thar
twice the corresponding average fol
the 10 years 1908 to 1917, inclusive
which was 12.1 cents. During the per.
iod in question the lowest figure was
that for December l, 1915, 81 cents
but by December 1 of the following
year the average price had increased
to 14.7 cents, and IL months later II
had leaped to 24.9 cents
Imports, Exports and Manufactures
of Tobacco
Imports of tobacco and its products
into the United States during 1917 ag-
gregated s4O,S11,539 in value, an
amount about one-seventh as great as
the estimated value of the American
tobacco crop; and the exports of do
nestle tobacco and its products dur
ing the same year represented total
value of $62,017, O37.
According to the latest annual re-