Data on various phases of the current tobacco industry in Virginia 

 have been suppHed by the Agricultural Marketing Service, United 

 States Department of Agriculture, and the Department of Labor 

 and Industry, the Department of Conservation and Economic Develop- 

 ment, the Cooperative Crop Reporting Service, and the Department 

 of Taxation, all of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Other data have 

 been derived from publications of the Tobacco Tax Council ( Richmond, 

 Virginia ) , of the Internal Revenue Service, and from "Report on . . . 

 Tobacco," J. B. Killebrew and "Statistics of Tobacco," J. R. Dodge, 

 both in Report on the Productions of Agriculture, Tenth Census, 

 1880 (1883). 



Works that provided information on various divisions of Virginia's 

 tobacco history were Soi7 Exhaustion as a Factor in the Agricultural 

 History of Virginia and Maryland, 1606-1860, A. O. Craven (Univer- 

 sity of Illinois Studies, XIII, no. 1, 1926); The Mighty Leaf, J. E. 

 Brooks, ( 1952); The Story of Tobacco in America, J. C. Robert ( 1949); 

 tmd The Bright-Tobacco Industry, Nannie M. Tilley (1948). 



The passage quoted on page 12 is from John Smith, The General 

 Historie of Virginia (1625); those on page 14 are from Brooks, The 

 Mighty Leaf; Lord Culpeper's comment on page 18 is from the Calen- 

 dar of State Papers (I860); Jefferson's statement on page 21 appears 

 in Robert, Story; the quotation from the Richmond Enqtdrer on page 

 22 occurs in Robert, The Tobacco Kingdom (1938); Taylor's opinion 

 cm page 23 was printed in Arator (Baltimore, 1814) and republished 

 in Craven, Soil Exhaustion; The Census Bureau statement on page 27 

 comes from Robert, Story and the quotation on pages 28-29 from 

 Leslie's appeared in the issue of February 10, 1883. 



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