Data on the current tobacco industry in Maryland have been sup- 

 pHed by the Economic Research Service, United States Department of 

 Agriculture; the University of Maryland, College of Agriculture, Co- 

 operative Extension Service; the Maryland Tobacco Improvement 

 Foundation, Inc.; and the Maryland State Tobacco Authority. Other 

 data on the current industry are derived from the Internal Revenue 

 Service and the U.S. Department of Commerce, and the Tobacco Tax 

 Council in Richmond. A special note of thanks is due to Claude G. 

 McKee, Ph.D., Tobacco Extension Specialist, University of Maryland. 



The Story of Tobacco in America by Joseph C. Robert ( 1967 ) was 

 an invaluable source for various accounts in this booklet relating to 

 tobacco history and to biographies. Other reference works used were 

 Tobacco and Americans, Robert K, Heimann (1960); The Mighty 

 Leaf, Jerome E. Brooks (1952); Tobacco Coast, Arthur Pierce Mid- 

 dleton (1953); The Bright Tobacco Industry, Nannie May Tilley 

 (1948); Post World War U Foreign Trade In Maryland Tobacco, 

 George M. Beal and Charles W. Coale (1965); Southern Maryland 

 Resources, University of Maryland (1964); Southern Maryland, A 

 Tobacco Economy, University of Maryland, Bureau of Business and 

 Economic Research. 



The quotation on page 16 is from A Revelation of Maryland, Francis 

 L. Hawks (1635) in Southern Maryland Resources; the 1724 quote 

 on page 21 is from Robert; "The Sot-Weed Factor" on page 22 is from 

 a poem by Eben Cook, published first in London ( 1708 ) and found 

 in Robert; the quote referring to tobacco "trash" found on page 23 is 

 from Middleton; Adam Anderson's quote on page 24 is from Of The 

 Origin of Commerce, Anderson, (1633) edited by William Combe 

 and found in the Arents Collections, New York Public Library, Astor, 

 Lenox and Tilden Foundations; The quotation on the "Tobacco 

 Wars," on page 26 and reference to Lord Comwallis is also from 

 Robert; the quotation on page 28 referring to "yellow" tobacco is from 

 Tilley. 



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