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One of the most important things to be done to make the 

 tobacco industry a success in this State, is the establish- 

 ment of home manufactories. The freight charges on to- 

 bacco from Auburn to Florence, S. C, or Danville, Va., are 

 $1.05 per 100 pounds, which reduces the profit too much in 

 this age of sharp competition. 



The cotton crop of this State brings annually $30,000,000 

 to $35,000,000, and from the best information that has been 

 gotten, as much as one-fourth or one-fifth of the amount 

 that the cotton crop sells for is spent in tobacco raised in 

 other States. If our owq people raised and manufactured 

 enough tobacco for their own consumption, a large amount 

 of money that is now sent out of our State annually for an 

 article that we could produce at home, would be kept in our 

 own State. 



The Station saved seed from last years crop of all of the 

 varieties planted, and will distribute a limited quantity to 

 the farmers of the State on application. 



