UNITED STATES, THE CENSUS OF. 



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This crop was a medium one. The total 

 production in 1869 was 262,735,341 pounds, of 

 which 105,305,869 pounds were grown in Ken- 

 tucky, 37,086,364 in Virginia, 21,465,452 in 

 Tennessee, 18,741,973 in Ohio, 15,785,339 in 

 Maryland, 12,320,483 in Missouri, 11,150,087 

 in North Carolina, and 8,328,798 in Connec- 

 ticut. Mr. J. B. Killebrew, special agent on 

 the culture and curing of tobacco, reports 

 that 



Ninety-four per cent of all the product grown for 

 market in 1879, north of the parallel of 39 s 44', was 

 classed as seed-leaf tobacco ; and eighty -four per cent 

 of the whole product of that class was grown north of 

 the same line. The amount ot seed-leaf grown in the 

 United States reached nearly twenty per cent of the 

 entire product. The new variety known as White 

 Burley, which has attained such great popularity 

 within the past decade, for the manufacture or chew- 

 ing-tobacco, amounted to thirteen per cent of the 

 whole crop of 1879. The seed-leaf varieties, including 

 Havana or Spanish, with the White Burley, together 

 made nearly one third of the crop. The remainder 

 was divided unequally between export tobacco and 

 sun-, air-, and flue-cured fillers and wrappers for plug- 

 worK and smoking-tobacco. A very small proportion 

 of that cured with open fires is now used for domestic 

 consumption, its use being confined to sailors, lum- 

 bermen, fishermen, and those performing hard out- 

 door labor. 



The following table shows the produc- 

 tion of cotton, in bales averaging 475 pounds 

 each : 



The total yield of cotton-seed was 2,725,197 

 tons, and of lint, 1,362,599 tons. The cotton- 

 crop of the United States for a series of years, 

 as estimated by the "Financial and Commer- 

 cial Chronicle," of New York, is as follows: 



YEARS. Bale.. 



18SO-'31 6,689,329 



187-'80 5,757,397 



1373-'79 5,073,531 



1877-73 4,811,265 



1S76-V7 4.485.428 



1875-'76 4,669,288 



1874-'75 8,832.991 



1873-'74 4,170,888 



1872-'78 . . . . ; 8,980,503 



1871-'72 2,974,351 



1870-'71 485-2,317 



1S69-'70 8,154,946 



1868-'69 2,439,039 



1867-'68 2,498,895 



YEARS. Bute. 



1866-'67 2.050,271 



1865-'66 2.->--'-.'.'-7 



1861-'65 No record. 



1860-'61 8.826,086 



1859-'60 4,823,770 



185S-'59 8.W4.4M 



1867-'5S 8,288,902 



1856-'57 8,056,519 



1855-'56 8,645.845 



1854-'55 2.982,839 



lS53-'54 8.085,027 



1852-'58 8,852,882 



1851-52 8,090.029 



1S50-'51 2,415,267 



The production of bituminous coal in the 

 States east of the 100th meridian, during the 

 year ending June 1, 1880, was as follows : 



The maximum capacity of the yearly pro- 

 duction of these mines was 74,154,273 tons ; 

 value of materials used in the mines during 

 the year, $4,661,662 ; wages paid to all classes 

 of labor during the year, $30,707,059 ; total 

 number of hands employed, 96,475; amount 

 used as working capital, $8,191,960 ; total capi- 

 tal employed and invested in establishments, 

 $89,999,101 ; aggregate of capital, including 

 both establishments and irregular workings, 

 $93,517,464; number of acres of available 

 coal-lands attached to working establishments, 

 410,642. A comparison of the production of 



