8 TOBACCO LEAF. 



this was grown in Kentucky. In the southern and cen- 

 tral parts of Kentucky, and in Tennessee, tobacco was 

 grown as a commodity as early as 1810. Prior to 1833, 

 by far the largest quantity of tobacco grown in Kentucky 

 and Tennessee was sent to the market in New Orleans, 

 where it was taken for foreign consumption. After that 

 time, local dealers established factories in Clarksville and 

 at a few interior points, and began to buy loose tobacco 

 and stem it (i. e., take out the midrib of the leaf) for 

 the English market. A few years after this, Henderson, 

 Ky., grew to be a great strip market, a position which 

 it still holds. From this time on, the Western markets 

 for tobacco sprang up in many places. Inspection ware- 

 houses were estab- 

 lished in Louisville 

 as early as 1839, and 

 in Clarksville in 



, " lir 184:5. At these 



[_^ \\ markets, casks are 



PIPBOFWAB. PIPE OP PEACE. stripped from the 



FIG. u. PIPES OF AMERICAN INDIANS. tobacco, and sam- 

 ples drawn by sworn inspectors. These two places, 

 Louisville and Clarksville, are the pioneer inspection 

 markets of the Mississippi valley, and they opened the 

 first inspection warehouses in the West. From the 

 establishment of these local markets in Kentucky and 

 Tennessee, the tobacco trade of the Mississippi valley went 

 on increasing, until now it stands second only to cotton 

 as a farm commodity for exportation. 



The New England colonists grew some tobacco in 

 the decade embraced between 1640 and 1650, but the 

 cultivation of it was, for the most part, abandoned dur- 

 ing the 18th and the first three decades of the 19th cen- 

 tury, when, by experiments first made by B. P. Barber 

 of East Windsor, Conn., it was ascertained that a qual- 

 ity of tobacco could be grown, deficient, indeed, in 



