CHAPTER XIV. 



THE WHITE BURLEYf&ND MANUFACTURING TOBACCO. 



While experiments in growing White Burley have 

 been made in all the tobacco-growing States in the 

 South and several in the North, the district where the 

 quality reaches its greatest excellence has greatly 

 increased its boundaries during the past 15 years. This 

 entire district lies on both sides of the Ohio river. The 

 Kentucky White Bnrley district embraces an area of a 

 little over 10,000 square miles, and includes 34 counties, 

 or parts of counties, all of which adjoin, except two, 

 Breatliitt and Bell, forming an irregular figure bounded 

 by the Ohio river on the North and on the other sides 

 by lines drawn from Louisville, Ky., to Danville, and 

 from Danville to Catlettsburg. Bell and Breathitt 

 together only produced a little over 15,000 pounds of 

 tobacco in 1896, and scarcely deserve to be mentioned. 



The largest producing counties, taken in the order 

 of their production as reported by the county assessors, 

 in 1894, are Mason with over 5,000,000 pounds; Shelby, 

 Henry, Woodford and Carroll each between 4,000,000 

 and 5,000,01*0 pounds. The following counties between 

 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 pounds, Harrison, Hart,. 

 Grant, Scott, Nicholas, Fleming, Pendleton, Bracken 

 and Fayette. Boone and Trimble produced each 

 between 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 pounds. The coun- 

 ties of Clark, Bourbon, Owen, Franklin and Gallatin 

 produced over 1,500,000 pounds each, and the counties 

 of Bath, Jessamine, Carter, Mercer and Robertson pro- 

 duced over 1,000,000 each. 



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