New-York tribune., 1918-06-24
Tobacco Stock
Shows Increase
Over Last Year
Survey Indicates Little
Danger of Shortage,
Despite Big Exports

WASHINGTON, June 23.-Small
danger of a tobacco shortage, despite
tremendous amounts being shipped
abroad to the army, seems to be shown
in report on the industry by the Bu-
reau of the Census disclosing that
stocks on hand at the beginning of
this year amounted to 1,176,234,657
pounds, an increase of 1875 per cent
over last year.
The total production for 1917 was L.
196, ,451 900 pounds, of which 76 per cent
was chewing, smoking, snuff and export
types, 19 per cent cigar types and per
cent imported types. The leading in
dividual type was that produced in the
bright yellow district of Virginia,
North Carolina and South Carolina"
Of which there was reported 428,913,-
GOA pounds. or 36.5 per cent of the
total. Burley tobacco contributed IT,
206,S00 pounds, or 15.i per cent, and
the tobacco classed as clark fired az
grown in Clarksville, Hopkinsville and
Paducas districts" amounted to Ill.,
1885 pounds, or 10 per cent.
Leading Tobacco States
Leading tobacco states and the esti-
mated amounts grown by them are as
follows: Kentucky, 426,600 900 pounds;
North Carolina, 204,750,000 pounds;
Virginia. 12e,500,000 pounds; Ohio,
99.072,0o0 pounds; Tennessee. $780,
600 pounds; Pennsylvania, 58,100,OO0
pounds; South Carolina. 51,120,oOO
Connecticut, 29,54O,Ooo and Maryland,
22,594,00O pounds. The acreage esti-,
mated for these states ranged from
474,000 for Kentucky to $1,000 for
Connecticut, and the production per
acre, from 1,400 pounds for Connect
cut and Pennsylvania to $50 pounds
for North Carolina. The higher yields
are obtained. as rule, in the locali-
ties producing the high-priccd tyres
used in the manufacture of cigars,
During the last three quarters Of a
century the growth in tobacco produc-
tion in the United States has not quite
kept pace with that in population
The total worlds average production
of tobacco during the period imme-
diately preceding the war is estimated
at 4,197 100000 pounds annually. OF
this. continental United States prod
uced approximately 100000, ,00C
pounds; British India, 1,0O0,OOO,0O(
pounds; China. 500,O00,0OO pounds
european Russia, Z3U,UOO,OOO pounds
Dutch East Indies. 100000 900 pounds
Austria Hungary, 170,00O,O0O pounds;
Japan, 20,o0o,o0o pounds; Philippines
100,000,000 pounds, and Brazil, 100000.
900 pounds. The total for these coun.
tries amounts to 1920, 100000 pounds
or 81 per cent Of the total for the
world.
Big Increase in Value
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 Decemeer /, 1917, was
24.9 cents pound, or more than twice
the corresponding average for the ter
years 1908 to 1917, inclusive, which
was 12.1 cents.
Imports Of tobacco and it's product:
into the United States during 1917 az
gregated S40,811,5 ,539 in value, ar
amount about one-seventh as great a.
the estimated value of the American
tobacco crop; and the exports of do
mestic tobacco and its products during
the same year represented tota
value of $62,O17,037.
During the fiscal year-ended June 80
1917, the internal revenue collected OF
manufactured tobacco and it's products
amounted to $103,201 ,592.