REPORT OF THE STATISTICIAN. 



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equals about 1,100 square miles, or the superficial area of two small 

 CDunties. The shipping and manufacturing tobacco is nearly all grown 

 iti the middle belt, in parts of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, 

 Tennessee, Kentucky, and Missouri ; while the cigar tobacco, the seed- 

 loss varieties, are produced entirely in the ITorthern States, in a few 

 counties in the States of Massachusetts, Connecticut, ISTewYork, Penn- 

 sylvania, Ohio, and Wisconsin. 



The average estimated annual production of the ten years from 1S70 

 to 1879 was 464,920,000 pounds; the crop area, 629,944 acres; the an- 

 nual value, $39,770,600. For the past five years, 483,401,443 pounds, 

 65S;234 acres, and a valuation of $42,055,493. The value per pound is 

 thus made 8.7 cents (an increase of 1 mill per pound), the yield per acre 

 is 734 pounds, and the average value per acre $63.89. All of these re- 

 sults are in remarkable uniformity Tfith those for the preceding period. 



The proportion exported has formerly been nearly three-fifths. The 

 enlargement of consumption, with increase of population, is rapidly 

 changing this proiDortion, so that the quantity required in this country 

 is greater than the demand from abroad. The foreign demand does 

 not increase. The average annual exi)ortation for five years has been 

 219,534,594 pounds ; for ten years preceding 252,945,900 pounds. There 

 has therefore been a marked decrease in the exportation, while con- 

 sumption has increased. In the previous period more than half was 

 exported ; in the last five years the consumption has been considerably 

 more than half. 



Calendar years. 



Total produc- 

 tion. 



Total area 

 ol" crop. 



Total Talne 

 of crop. 



Average 



valne, per 



pound. 



Average 



yield, 

 per acre. 



Average 

 value of 



yield 

 per aero. 



1880. 

 1881. 

 1882. 

 1883. 

 1884. 



Total, 



Annual average 



Annual average for preced- 

 ing ten yeara 



Ponnds. 

 4G0, 000, 000 



450, 880, 014 

 513, 077, 558 



451, 545, 641 

 541, 504, 000 



Acres. 

 610, 000 

 046, 230 

 071, 522 

 638, 739 

 724, 663 



2, 417, 007, 213 



$39, 100, 000 

 43, 372, 000 

 43, 180, 951 

 40, 455, 362 

 44, 160, 151 



Cents, 

 8.5 I 

 0.6 

 8.4 

 9.0 



3, 291, 168 210, 277, 464 



483, 401, 443 



658, 234 42, 055, 493 



464, 920, 000 



629, 944 I 39, 770, 600 



Poundt. 

 754.1 

 697.7 

 704. 1 

 70S. 9 

 747.2 



8.7 



8.C 



734.4 



738.0 



$64 10 

 07 11 

 64 32 

 03 34 

 60 94 



63 89 



63 13 



The early returns of tobacco in the days of heavy taxation were far 

 short of the fact. In a special report on tobacco for the census of 

 18B0 the present Statistician,, then in charge of the statistics of agri- 

 culture of the census, revised the former estimate to correspond with 

 figures of consumption and distribution, which were obtained very ac- 

 curately by compilation of the revenue office data of manufacture, and 

 the records of exi)ortation. The requirements of the trade at the present 

 time demand the production of very nearly 500,000,000 pounds of leaf 

 per annum. 



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