Data on the current tobacco industry in South Carolina have 

 been supplied by the Cooperative Extension Service of Cleinson 

 University, Agriculture Experiment Station, Florence, S.C.; Eco- 

 nomic Research Service and Agriculture Marketing Service, 

 United States Department of Agriculture; and the Tobacco Tax 

 Council, Richmond, Va. 



A special note of thanks is due to D. A. Benton of the Pee 

 Dee Experiment Station in Florence, S.C.; Dr. U. S. Jones, 

 Dr. Norwood Page and Dr. L. P. Anderson all of Clemson 

 University, College of Agricultural Sciences; Marion Fowler, 

 executive secretary of the South Carolina Tobacco Warehouse 

 Assn., Inc. in Lake City and to J. M. Lewis of Florence. 



Material on the history of tobacco in South Carolina came 

 from The Shaftesbury Papers, Vol. V, South Carolina Historical 

 Society (1897); Tobacco and Americans, Robert K. Heimann 

 (1960); The Story of Tobacco in America, Joseph C. Robert (1967); 

 The Bright Tobacco Industry, Nannie May Tilley (1948); Mullins, 

 The City of Opportunity, published by the Mullins. S.C. Cen- 

 tennial Commission, Inc. (1972); Growing Flue-Cured Tobacco 

 in South Carolina, Circular 287, Clemson University Cooperative 

 Extension Service (1969); Aromatic Tobacco Production Practices 

 and Requirements, D. E. Crawford, Clemson Agricultural Col- 

 lege (1967); Ramsey's History of South Carolina, David Ramsey, 

 M.D., Volumes I & II (1858); Statistics of South Carolina, 

 Robert Mills (1826); The Production of Tobacco, W. W. Garner 

 (1946); Handbook of South Carolina, State Department of Agri- 

 culture, Commerce and Immigration (1907). Other information 

 on the history and current data concerning tobacco and South 

 Carolina were obtained from various circulars published by 

 Clemson University in cooperation with the United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture. 



The quotations on p. 13 are from The Shaftesbury Papers as is 

 the p. 14 quote, the quote on p. 20 is from the Mullins' Centen- 

 nial booklet, A History of Marion County, W. VV. Sellers (1901); 

 the p. 22 reference to South Carolina tobacco is from Handbook 

 of South Carolina as is the James Wilson quote on p. 23. 



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