1030 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Off. Doc. 



In tliat year the total production was 325,018 pounds, and with the 

 exception of a decrease in the decade from ISSO to 1890 the produc- 

 tion has steadily and rapidly increased. The increase in production 

 for the last decade was 48.3 per cent, and that in acreage, 3.0 per 

 cent. 



The present census shows that tobacco was grown in 1899 by 9,621 

 farjuers, who obtained from 27,760 acres a yield of 41,502,620 pounds, 

 or an average of 1,495 pounds per acre. 



The most important tobacco region in the State is the southeastern 

 part, where Lancaster and York counties reported a total of 34,- 

 413,650 pounds. In Lancaster county, which was the leading tobacco 

 couuiy of the country in 1889, there were 5,809 farmers, June 1,1900, 

 who reported a total of 18,025 acres, upon which they raised 28,246,- 

 160 pounds, or 68.1 per cent, of the State total. The value of the 

 product in this county was -11,991,446. In the northern part of the 

 Statf, Tioga county reported 2,812,330 pounds; Bradford county, 1,- 

 093,820 pounds, and Clinton county, 1,221,730 pounds. Other coun- 

 ties producing over 200,000 pounds, are Chester, Lebanon and Lycom- 



ing. 



Sorghum Cane. 



The present census shows that in 1899, 233 farmers raised 105 acres 

 of sorghum cane, from which they sold 21 tons of cane for |71, and 

 from the remaining product manufactured 6,514 gallons of sirup, 

 valued at |3,090. This was a decrease in acreage since 1889 of 78.5 

 per cent. The sorghum crop reached its highest point in 1869, with 

 a production of 213,373 gallons of sirup. 



Floriculture. 



The area devoted to the cultivation of flowers and ornamental 

 plants in 1899 was 1,073 acres, and the value of the products sold 

 therefrom was |2,246,075. These flowers and plants were grown by 

 1.093 farmers and florists, of whom 734 made commercial floriculture 

 their principal business. These 734 proprietors reported a glass 

 surface of 8,811,711 square feet. They had invested in the aggregate 

 10,894,985, of which |3,705,528 represents the value of land, and of 

 imi-rovements other than buildings; |2,952,280, the value of build- 

 ings; 1179,445, that of implements; and .157,732, that of live stock. 

 Their sales of flowers and plants amounted to $2,043,124, and of other 

 products, to 1171,319. They expended for labor |513,677, and for 

 fotilizers, |41,537. Including the value of products fed to live stock, 

 tin average gross income per farm reporting was $3,036. 



In addition to the 734 principal florists' establishments, 2,969 farms 



