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tobacco warehouse was established at Warehouse Point, Conn., in 1825. 

 About 3,200 pounds of tobacco were packed here and shipped to New York, 

 The first factories were established in 1810, one at East Windsor, and 

 another at Suffield, Conn. The cultivation was gradually extended, and 

 in 1840 it was a general crop, though small, grown as regularly as any other 

 in the valley. 



It is to Mrs. Prout, the wife of a farmer of South Windsor, Conn., that 

 the men of tliis country are indebted for the first cigar in America. The 

 Indians had made and smoked a roll of tobacco, but the cigar as we know 

 it to-day had its birth in America in 1801. Wives of other farmers joined 

 Mrs. Prout in her enterprise, and peddled their cigars from village to 

 village in wagons. The "Long Nines" and "Windsor Particulars" soon 

 came to be the principal brands. 



Other areas suitable for the production of cigar leaf types of tobacco 

 were exploited at about the same time as the Connecticut valley. The 

 present areas in Lancaster and York counties, Permsylvania ; the Gadsden 

 county area in Florida; the Miami valley area in Ohio ; and the Onondaga 

 and Big Flats area in New, York are the chief sections. Nowhere, how- 

 ever, did the production of cigar tobacco attain much importance till the 

 decade just preceding the civil war. This fact is very clearly indicated in 

 the table below. 



Table 1. — Production of Tobacco in the United States by Localities, 1849 

 and 1859.^ 



I Compiled from census reports. 



The present important Wisconsin area had no commercial importance 

 until after the civil war. 



This rapid increase in the production of cigar leaf tobacco from 1850 to 1860 

 was coincident with a great increase in the use of cigars in this country, which was 

 reflected in our imports of cigars and cigar leaf for the same period. The number 



