489,000 pounds of Burley were harvested in that year. 

 The total crop, however, was worth only $73,000. The 

 harvest of 1944 was down to 300,000 pounds but the 

 price of tobacco had advanced in the war years and the 

 crop brought $144,000. 



Tobacco production in Kansas during the middle 

 1940's was to be the last of any consequence. By the 

 early years of the 1950's no more than a hundred acres 

 were annually under tobacco cultivation in the state. 

 Colonel Sharp and his friends in the south and other 

 good farmers in the northeast had tried to make a suc- 

 cess out of a difficult agriculture. Nature had forced the 

 abandonment of the first efforts; economics the discon- 

 tinuance of the second. The latter factor was represented 

 by the successful operation of Burley farms in Kentucky, 

 Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina and elsewhere. 



Long before the second revival of interest in tobacco 

 growing had taken place, the good earth of Kansas was 

 producing great quantities of food crops. The state which 

 United States Senator John J. Ingalls had described as 

 "the navel of the nation"— Fort Riley did in fact once 

 mark the geographic center of the country— had by then 

 become a major producer of wheat and corn, among 

 other commodities. 



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he cigarette is extinguislieci by law 



Failure to produce tobacco on a profitable commer- 



