Data on the current tobacco industry in Georgia have been supplied 

 by the Cooperative Extension Service of the University of Georgia 

 College of Agriculture, Coastal Plains Experiment Station, Tifton; 

 Economic Research Service and Agriculture Marketing Service, 

 United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C; and 

 the Tobacco Tax Council, Richmond, Va. 



A special note of thanks is due to Mssrs. Robert Miles of the Univer- 

 sity of Georgia's Cooperative Extension Service; to David Newton of 

 the Georgia State Department of Agriculture; Fred W. Voigt, Chair- 

 man, the Georgia Agricultural Commodity Commission For Tobacco, 

 Tifton; and to Miss Virginia Baker, Editor, "The Tobacco Farmer," 

 pubhshed by the Georgia Agricultural Commodity Commission For 

 Tobacco. 



Material on the history of tobacco in Georgia came from various 

 publications and reports made by E. C. W'estbrook, former Cotton 

 and Tobacco Specialist of the Agricultural Extension Service, Univer- 

 sity of Georgia; A Century of Georgia Agriculture, Willard Range, 

 University of Georgia Press, Athens; Georgia, Historical and Indus- 

 trial, O. B. Stevens and R. F. Wright (1901); Georgia, Her Resources 

 and Possibilities, R. T. Nesbitt ( 1895 ) ; History of Agriculture in the 

 Southern United States To 1860 by Lewis Cecil Cray, Volumes I and 

 II (1958); The Story of Tobacco in America by Joseph C. Robert 

 (1952); Tobacco and Americans by Robert K. Heimann (1960); The 

 Bright Tobacco Industry by Nannie May Tilley (1948). 



The quotation on page 2 is from History of Agriculture in the 

 Southern United States to I860; the Jefferson quote on page 4 is from 

 his own notes made in Paris, 1782 and can be found in the Arents 

 Collections, New York Public Library, the Astor, Lenox and Tilden 

 Foundations; the page 10 quotes are all from issues of the Blackshear 

 Times. 



Termission to quote directly from this booklet is grunted. 



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