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TOBACCO AND ITS EFFECTS. 



crop, and not at all in excess of the present requirements 

 for home-consumption and exportation. 



"Fifteen States produce now, as in 1870, more than 

 ninety per cent of the tobacco of the United States ; of 

 these fifteen, only Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Massa- 

 chusetts produce less than in 1870. Kentucky occupies 

 the first position, producing thirty-six per cent of the 

 total amount ; Virginia holds the second place, raising 

 80,099,838 lbs. against 60,000 lbs. in 1862; Pennsyl- 

 vania has advanced from the twelfth place to the third, 

 Wisconsin from the fifteenth to the tenth, and North Caro- 

 lina, Connecticut, and New York have each gained one 

 point, making North CaroHna sixth, Connecticut eighth, 

 and New York twelfth in the rank of tobacco States. The 

 changes of the decade may appear more clearly in . the 

 following statement : — 



A Comparative Statement, showing the Tobacco Product 

 OF THE States and Territories for the census-years 

 1880 and 1870, with the Acreage of 1880. 



