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 IV. 



FACTS FROM STATISTICS OF THE U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



From the report of the U. S. Departmeut of Agriculture 

 on the crops for the year 1893, the estimate placed on the 

 crop of tobacco raised iu sixteen States, all that are report- 

 ed as having raised tobacco, is 483,023,963 pounds from 

 702.952 acres, and valued at $39,155,442. This will give an 

 average of $55.70.1 per acre for the sixteen States that cul- 

 tivated tobacco in 1893. The last estimate made by the 

 Department of Agriculture of the acreage, production and 

 valuation of tobacco, prior to those given above, appeared 

 in the annual report of the Department for 1889, being the 

 estimate of the crop for 1888. The acreage as estimated for 

 1888 was 747,326, producing 565,795,000 pounds of tobacco, 

 at a total value of $13,666,665. The crop the following year, 

 1889, was returned by the U. S. Census at 488,255,896 pounds, 

 the product of 692,990 acres, with a total valuation of $ 34, 

 844.449. 



From a comparison of the estimates of 1888 with the 

 Census figures of 1889, it would seem that the former were 

 considerably too high. These discrepancies have been elim- 

 inated in the Department Eeport for the year 1893. The 

 figures of acreage for" the whole, vary little from year to 

 year, there being an increase of about 10,000 acres over the 

 (Census figures. The yield, on the contrary, varies greatly ; 

 and for 1893 was below the average. This is shown by the 

 total production being 5,000,000 pounds less than for the 

 Census year, despite the increased acreage. The average 

 yield of tobacco for the year 1893 in the sixteen tobacco 

 States amounted to 687 pounds per acre. 



The final estimates of the average farm price of tobacco, 

 December 1st, 1893, for the sixteen States that produced 

 tobacco, are as follows : 



