222 TOBACCO. 



" 1. That overproduction, the production at all, of low 

 grade tobacco is the chief cause of the present extremely 

 low price of the entire commodity. 



" 2. That the planters of the United States have the 

 remedy in their own hands; that remedy being the 

 reduction of area, this reduction to result, from the em- 

 ployment of the means here suggested, in increased crops ; 

 and, paradoxical as it may seem, these increased crops to 

 bring greatly enhanced values. 



" The whole world wants good tobacco, and will pay 

 well for it. Scarcely a people on earth seeks poor tobacco 

 or will buy it at any price. 



" In a word, then, one acre must be made to yield what 

 it has hitherto taken two or three acres to produce ; and 

 this double or treble quantity must be made (as, indeed, 

 under good management it oould not fail to be) immea- 

 surably superior in quality to that now grown on the 

 greater number of acres. Either this or the abandonment 

 of the crop altogether — one or the other." 



The exports from Baltimore were 46,239 hogsheads in 

 1882, 43,620 in 1883, 43,192 in 1884. The State of New 

 York, in 1883, had 5440 acres under tobacco, producing 

 9,068,789 lb., value 1,178,943 dollars ; and Connecticut, 

 8145 acres, 9,576,824 lb., 1,292,871 dollars. The produc- 

 tion of Minnesota was 65,089 lb. in 1879, 48,437 lb. in 1880, 

 79,631 lb. in 1881, 62,859 lb. in 1882, 14,744 lb. in 1883. 



Venezuela. — The exports from Ciudad Bolivar were, 

 in 1884, 1318 kilo., value 1037 bolivares, to the British 

 West Indies; 9618 Jcilo., 6691 holivares, to the United 

 States ; 275,329 kilo., 192,188 bolivares, to Germany. The 

 exports of tobacco from this port in decades have been : — 



