The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1918-06-28
MORE TOBACCO
IN AMERICA NOW
THAN LAST YEAR
Little Danger OF Shortage In
This Country Despite Big
Shipments To Soldier.
fsy Associated Press to The Rannerl

| [By Associated Press to The Bannerl
| WASHINGTON, June 25 = Small
danger of a tobacco shortage. despite
tremendous amounts being shipped
abroad to the army, seems to be
shown In a report on the industry by
the bureau of the census disclosing
that stocks on hand at the beginning
of this year amounted to 1,176,234,657
pounds, an increase of 1876 percent
over last year.
Total production for 1917, was L.
1876, ,451 900 pounds, Of which 76 per-
cent was chewing, smoking, snuff and
export types, 10 percent cigar types
and five percent imported types. The
leading individual type was that pro-
duced in the bright yellow districts
of Virginia, North Carolina and South
Carolina" of which there was report
ed 428,913.G04 pounds, or 36.5 percent
of the total. Buriey tobacco contrib
uted 177,2O6.SO0 pounds. or 15.1 per
cent; and the tobacco classed as dark
| fired as grown in Clarksville, Hop
kinsville, and Paducah districts"
amounted to 117.11S.3S6 pounds. or 10
percent.
Leading tobacco states and the es-
timated amounts grown by them are
as follows: Kentucky. 426,6O0, 900
pounds; North Carolina, 204, 4,750, 900
pounds; Virginia, 129,50O,OO0 pounds;
Ohio, 99,072.000 pounds; Tennessee,
S1,S1O.OOO pounds; Pennsylvania, 5S,-
100000 pounds; South Carolina, 5l,-
10000 pounds: Wisconsin, 45,s85. 900
pounds; Connecticut, 29,54O,O00; and
Maryland, 22.594,OO pounds. The ac
reage estimated for these states rang
| ed from 474,000 for Kentucky to 21,-
600 for Connecticut, and the produc
tion per acre, from 1,40O pounds for
Connecticut and Pennsylvania to $40
pounds for North Carolina. The high
er yields are obtained, as a rule. in
the localities producing the high pric-
ed types used in the manufacture of
cigars.
During the past three-quarters of
century the growth in tobacco prOduc-
tion in the United States has not
quite kept pace with that in popula-
tiOn.
Virginia was the greatest tobacco
growing state prior to the Civil War,
but since that period Kentucky has
led in this respect. Although at the
last census the production of tobacco
was reported for 1868 counties in As
states, nearly One-fourth of the crop
(23.5 per cent, was grown In the fol-
lowing II counties, each of which re-
ported more than 100000 pounds;
Lancaster, Pa; Hartford, Conn; Pitt
sylvania. 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.
The total worlds average produc-
tion of tobacco during the period i'm
mediatly preceding the war is estim-
ated at 4.l97 900. 900 pounds annually.
or this, Continental United States pro.
duced approximately 1000, 1000. 900
pounds; British India, 100000, 900
pounds; China, 500,000,00O pounds;
European Russia. 23O 1000, 900 pounds:
Dutch East Indies. 200, ,OOO. 900 pounds;
Austria-Hungary. 17O,OO0,OOO pounds
Japan, 120.0O0,00O pounds; Philip
pines. 1OO.OOO,OOO pounds: and Brazil,
100,000,OO0 pounds. The total for
these countries amounts to 3.420,OOO..
600 pounds, or 81 per cent of the total
for the world.
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 l. 1917.
was 24,9 cents pound. or more than
twice the corresponding average for