27 



Massachusetts, 16.0 cents per pouud, 



Counecticut 14.0 " 



New York. 15.2 " 



Peunsylvania, 13.5 



Maryland 7.6 " 



Virginia, 6.2 



North Carolina, 8.0 



Arkansas, 10.0 " 



Tennessee, 8.8 



West Virginia,. 10.2 " 



Kentucky, 7.6 



Ohio, . ." 6.5 " 



Indiana, 7.3 " 



Illinois, 7.0 " 



Wisconsin, 6.3 " 



Missouri, 7.6 



This report makes no allusion to tobacco raised in the 

 Southern States. It is well known that Florida and South- 

 ern Georgia produce good cigar tobacco, and South Carolina 

 good plug and smoking, and all of these States have tobacco 

 manufactories for cigars, plug and smoking tobacco. 



The report of the government for cotton for the year 1893 

 for acreage and yield is not at hand, only the prices of the 

 staple from eleven States that cultivated cotton are given. 

 From the report of 1888, which gave the essential features 

 of the cotton crop for that year, it appears that the average 

 3 iekl per acre for cotton thai _) ear, ior all ihe cotton ."States, 

 was one hundred and eighty pounds, and the average price 

 at that time was eight and one half cents per pound, which 

 would amount to fifteen dollars and Lhirty cems per acre. 

 Since that time the average production may not have de- 

 creased, but it is certain that the price of the staple has de- 

 clined, and it is reasonable to conclude from the following- 

 table that the farmers in the cotton States did not average 

 gross, over $ 12.61 per acre for their cotton, for the year 1893. 



The average farm price for cotton for 1893, in the eleven 

 States that raised cotton, is as follows : 



