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age yield per acre from 1,000 to 1,100 pounds. Green : Medium crops, but injured by 

 ■worms. Adair : The bulk of the crop is light, wants body and weight, and is inferior 

 in point of quality. Heavy tobacco, made on old ground, sells well. Bracken : Com- 

 paratively good;"injured to some extent by the dry weather immediately after and 

 during the latter part of the planting-season, and a little by early frost. Harrison : Gen- 

 erally second rate, strong, heavy tobacco ; our hill-lands only cultivated m tobacco. I 

 believe there was more raised in 1873. 



la Ohio, Montgomery stands first in production, in the census of 1870, 

 among tobacco counties, returning more than one-fi.fth of the aggregate 

 quantity in the State. Ten counties, which were credited witli nearly 

 two-thirds of the State product, now report more than that aggregate, 

 or 19,952,263 pounds. The comparison, liowever, with assessors' returns 

 for. 1869 would not show an advance. The crop of Montgomery in 1872 

 -was 8,178,513; the estimate for 1873 is the same. 



Montgomery : The quality is of an average compared with past years ; causes of good 

 qualitj- are, plenty of fertilizers, favorable seasons, good cultivation, hanging it on 

 twine or hooks, good sheds, and good weather for curing. The causes of bad peculiari- 

 ties or qualities are, planting on poor land, hanging on sticks by splitting the stalks, 

 letting it get too ripe before harvesting, dry weather during curing process. JBrown : 

 Good. The tobacco of this county sells in Cincinnati at this time higher than any to- 

 bacco from the West. We have a limestone soil well adapted to the raising of tobacco. 

 Darke : Pretty good. Raisers .having acquired experience, it is better handled. Monroe : 

 Not quite an average in qu'ality, on account of being planted late and growing slojvly dur- 

 ing the month of August. Morgan: A full average as to quality. Belmont: Generally 

 good. Prehle : Good; season was favorable, and no bailor other casualties. Adams: The 

 quality is about average, the white tobacco very good. Causes of bad quality are 

 late planting, sun-burn, and a few crops frosted. Edwards : Good quality, but worm- 

 eaten. A portion of the crop was abandoned to save the rest. Franklin : Medium. 

 Great want of suitable buildings for curing purposes. 



Illinois. — Pulaski : Medium. Laud good, but attention poor. Wayne : Fair. Injury 

 was caused by worms being worse than common. TViUiamson : The quality was leather 

 inferior, owing to drought. . White : Better than average. 



Returns from Missouri show an increase of about 35 per cent, over 

 those of the census. The following extracts are made from the reports : 



Saint Charles : Not as good as the crop of 1872, on account of drought in the setting- 

 out season, and the abundance of worms. Monroe: Quality and yield poor — 33J^ less 

 than an average, on account of an unusual protracted drought and early frost. Frank- 

 lin : Beiow average because of drought and insects ; also a failure of interest in its 

 culture. Howard : Inferior. The drought and early frost injured the crops generally. 

 Carroll : Poor ; one-half badly frosted. La Fayette : Ordinary to indiiierent ; cause, 

 dry season. May : Light in weight, but good color; caused by the dry season. 



Tobacco is not a prominent crop in Wisconsin, being grown mainly in 

 Eock and Dane Counties. The former, which is credited with 645,508 

 pounds in 1869, now returns 2,800,000 pounds, grown on 2,400 acres, 

 and worth 4 cents 7 mills per pound. 



The following is a summary, not of estimates of all the tobacco grown 

 in the State, but the aggregate quantity reported, and the aggregate 

 reported by the last census for the same counties : 



