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tobacco. The output of strips, however, increases year 

 by year in the White Burley and yellow-tobacco dis- 

 tricts. These styles are growing popular in England. 

 Strips are therefore made at nearly every point in North 

 Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee, where the yellow 

 tobacco is grown, as well as in those localities where the 

 White Burley tobacco is sold. 



The great strip markets of the United States are 

 Eichmond, Petersburg, Lynchburg and Fannville in 

 Virginia ; Henderson, Paducah, Louisville and Owens- 

 boro in Kentucky ; Clarksville, Springfield and Paris in 

 Tennessee, and Evansville in Indiana. There are nu- 

 merous other places where a few hundred hogsheads of 

 strips are put up irregularly. The industry is rarely 

 carried on at such small places except when the prices 

 of strips are very high. The make of Western strips 

 averages from 28,000 hogsheads to 30,000 hogsheads, 

 and those of Virginia and North Carolina 13,000 hogs- 

 heads, of which about 8,000 hogsheads are brights and 

 Burley. 



Magnitude of Heavy Leaf Trades. This does not 

 vary much from year to year, and according to the 

 movement toward primary markets there is room for 

 much further expansion of heavy leaf tobacco growing, 

 providing an adequate market can be found. Aggregate 

 receipts at the big market places are averaging a little 

 heavier than five years ago and more, but not much. 

 Taking a total of the receipts at each of the eight lead- 

 ing markets where heavy tobacco is sold at first hands, 

 we find that about 275,000 hogsheads came into view in 

 1896. This was a decrease from 1895, but practically 

 the same as in 1894 and 1892, while the aggregate 

 receipts at the eight markets in 1890 were about 250,000 

 hogsheads. Striking an average, this shows annual 

 receipts covering a period of eight years amounting to 

 265,000 hogsheads, which fairly represents the available 



