Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-06-30
KENTUCKY STANDS FIRST
IN TOBACCO PRODUCTION
Nearly One-Quarter OF Crop Grown
In Fourteen Counties, Two Of
Them in Virginia.
UNITED STATES LEADS WORLD
Average Price December 4, 1917,
2d.0 Cents Pound, According To
Preliminary Report OF Census Blu
reau--Onc OF Great Industries.
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WASHINGTON. June 29.-Director of
that the Census Bureau will shortly
issue bulletin on the American to-
bocco industry. gave out preliminary
abatement showing that the tobacco
constitutes one of the great Industries
- -hc world.
Tho total worlds production OF to-
bacco. Immediately preceding the war.
he says was 4.l9T 900. 900 pounds an
nually. OF this amount America grew
l.l7G.o0o,o00 pounds, NirEinia's contri-
button being l23.5oO.OOO pounds. He
declares that In the United States alone
there was made during 1916 nearly
Isl. nnC 10000 cigars and cigarettes and
nearly 5oo.0oo.0oo pounds Of chewing
and smoking tobacco and snuff.
The leading tobacco States and the
estimated amounts grown by them In
1917" says Mr.. Rogers in a preliminary
Census Bureau statement, ARE as fol-
lows: Kentucky. 42C.G0F00 pounds;
North Carolina. 2o4.75oOOo pounds;
Virginia. 12o.hOo,ooo pounds Ohio. o.
072,hn pounds: Tennessee. S1Soo.0oO
pounds: PENNSYLVANIA $500. ono pounds:
South Carolina. Jl.i200oO pounds: Wis
consin, i5,Ss5 900 pounds: Connecticut
2o.54n.ooh pounds. and Maryland. e.
$4,000 pounds. The acreage estimated
FOR these states ranged from $4,000 for
Kentucky TO 2l.ooo for Connecticut. and
the production por acre from 400
pounds for Connecticut and Pennsyl-
vania 10 Gao for North Carolina The
higher yields are obtained. as a rule,
in the localities producing the high
priced types used in tho manufacture
OF cigars
During the past threc-Guartcrs Of
a century the growth in tobacco pro-
duction in the United States has not
quite kept pace with tina. in poruia-
ton; tho estimated crop yield 81 1917
bal
great az the crop Of 1879 whereas the
population Of the United Statoa IN 1917
was six times greater than It was in
1892
virginia was tho greatest tobacco
growing state prior to tho Civil War
but since that period Kentucky has
led In this respect Although at the
last census the production Of tobacco
was rdportei IN 1865 counties IN fortv-
five States. nearly one-four,h Of the
crop was grown in tho following four
teen counties. each ot which reported
more than 1n0no con pounds. rarcas-
ter. Pa: Hartford. Conn: Pi.tsylvania.
Va: Dane. Wis: Halifax. Va: Darke.
o; pavioss. Ky: Montgomery. o.: Rob-
ertson. Tenn: Christian Ky: Graves.
Ky; Montgomery. Tenn: Pitt. " c.
and Henderson, Nv
The worlds total production of to-
harco during the period Immediately
preceding tho war is estimated a. g.
i'"""o.'"" pounds annually. or this.
continental United states produced l.
ln,'"oo roo mounds: British India L.
600 10000; China. 5oo, ono. 600: Europe,n
Russia, 100000 oon, Dutch East Indies.
200 100000: Austria Hungary. 10000
600; Japan. 10000 900. Phnippincs.
100 non 600 and Brazil. 1oo.noO,0On.
Tn" average farm price Of tobacco
throughout the United States on De-
cemher !. 1917. was os.9 cents hound.
or more than twice tho corresponding
average for the ton years from 1905 TO
lAlT. which was l2.l Cents"