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Smoking Tobaccos : Total product jumped from 55 million pounds in 

 '86, to over 83 millions in '94, being from the principal States : Illi- 

 nois, 4.9 to 8.6; Kentucky, to 3.7; Louisiana, to 1.3: Maryland, 6.3 to 

 9.3; Michigan, 5.8 to 8.2; Missouri, 4.5 to 5.6; New Jersey, 4.9 to 5.1; New 

 York, 9.6 to 12.6; North Carolina, 4.7 to 7.1; Ohio 2.6 to 3.9; Pennsylva- 

 nia, stationary at 3; Wisconsin, 4.7 to 5.5; while Virginia and West 

 Virginia, which manufactured no smoking tobacco in '86, reported 

 4.1 and 3.6 million pounds respectively for 1894. 



Snuff: Product for 1886 was 6,547,000 pounds against 11,583,000 

 pounds in 1894. In the latter year, the principal States that producing 

 snuff were: New Jersey, 4,920,000 pounds; Pennsylvania, 3,822,000 

 pounds; Tennessee, 965,000; Virginia, 726,000; Maryland, 493,000; Illi- 

 nois, 347,000 pounds. In 1886, the principal snuff-producing States 

 were : Delaware, 2,284,000 and New Jersey, 2,500,000 pounds. 



PRICES IN HOME AND 'FOREIGN MARKETS. 



Table XIII. CIGAB LEAF AT NEW YORK CITY. 



This table gives the average wholesale quotations in January and 

 October, at New York city, for the best gcvde of domestic tobacco used 

 for filling cigars. Also the same for best grades of domestic wrapper 

 leaf. The growths of Connecticut, New York State, Pennsylvania and 

 Ohio are separately stated, as their qualities are usually quite differ- 

 ent. From 1850 to 1857, Connecticut wrappers sold for 10 to 20 cents per 

 pound at New York city. Thence to 1860 the price was 10 to 40 cents. 

 Twenty and 25 cents was the top price until 1863, when the boom 

 began that culminated a year later. 



[Quotations are in cents per pound.] 



Cigar fillers. 



1870 

 1872 

 1873 

 1874 

 1875 

 1876 

 1878 



Cigar wrappers. 



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