102 ' TOBACCO 'PRODUCTION IN THE UNITED STATES. 



$15 per month for men, aud from 50 to 75 cents by the day. Half these prices are paid for women, who, when well 

 trained, are excellent workers in tobacco. The cost of cultivating an acre in fancy tobacco is given as follows : 



Cost of seod-bed for ouoacre $1 00 



Cost of seed 25 



Weeding and attention to lied 1 00 



Hunt <>( land ( interest on price) 50 



Cost of breaking ouo acre twice 3 00 



Harrowing, lining, aucl hilling 4 50 



Drawing and setting out plants 2 25 



Cultivating 5 50 



Topping, worming, aud snckering 5 00 



Harvesting aud curing with charcoal 20 00 



Taking down, assorting, and stripping 10 00 



Bulking ami prizing 5 00 



Use of horse, wagon, laths, etc 10 00 



Delivering to market 2 00 



70 00 



The average yield is 500 pounds; value in market, at 20 cents per pound, $100; profit per acre, $30; cost of 

 production, 14 cents per pound. The enumerator's returns of the crop of 1879 in Callaway county show an average 

 yield of 485 pounds per acre. 



Planters and dealers who pack their tobacco in this district aim to get the wrappers on the market while in the 

 sweat, and the smokers and fillers just after they have passed through that process. 



An estimate given by a gentleman in Stoddard county places the total cost of production per acre at $30 50. 

 The yield on good soils is not far from 800 pounds per acre, though the average for the county in 1879 was only 686 

 pounds. Taking the highest yield, and the cost amounts to $3 81 per hundred pounds ; with the average yield it 

 amounts to $4 44. The price of labor in this division of the state is much lower than in other tobacco-growing 

 sections. Good men are hired at $10 a month and board, and excellent tobacco lands can be bought at $5 per 

 acre. 



The following are the estimates of value per pound for the crops of the various counties reporting: 



BOLLINGKR. But little sold ; 10 cents. 



BOONE. Average value, 7.7 cents; cutting and Burley tobacco, 10 cents; shipping leaf, 5 cents. 



BUTLER. Average value, 5 cents. 



CABKOLL. Average value, 5 cents; lugs, 2 cents; shipping leaf, 4J to 5 cents; fillers, 7 to 7 cents; wrappers, 

 bright aud mahogany, 10 to 25 cents. 



CALLAWAY. Average value, 8 cents; lugs, 2J cents; shipping leaf, 6 cents; tillers, 7 to 9 < cents; wrappers, 

 10 to 60 cents. 



CHARITON. Average value, 4 cents; lugs, shipping, 1 to 2 cents; leaf, shipping, 4 to 6 cents; fillers, 

 manufacturing, 5 to 7 cents; White Burley, crop round, 6 to 10 cents; bright wrappers, 10 to 60 cents. 



FIIANKLIN. Average value, 8 ceuts; dark shipping, crops round, 5 cents; fillers, for manufacturing, 5 to 6 

 cents; bright wrappers, first grade, 50 to 70 ceuts; second grade, 40 to 50 cents; third grade, 17 to 28 cents; fourth 

 grade, 7 to 15 cents. 



HOWARD. Average value, 4J cents; trash, 2 cents; medium shipping, 3 cents; good shipping, 4J cents; 

 bright tobacco, 5 to 8 cents ; White Burley, 5 to 10 cents. 



LINCOLN. Average value, G cents; lugs, 2 to 4 cents; fillers, 6 to 9 cents; wrappers, 12 to 20 cents. 



LACLEDE. Average value, 5 cents. 



MACON. Average value, 4 cents. 



OSAGE. Average value, 8 cents; shipping leaf, 4 cents; fillers, 7 cents; wrappers, 10 to 30 cents. 



PIKE. Average value, 7 cents; shipping tobacco, crop round, 4 cents; air-cured manufacturing fillers, 7 

 cents; bright wrappers, 10 to 27 cents. 



RANDOLPH. Average value, 4 cents; lugs, shipping, 1 to 2 cents; leaf, 4 to 6 cents; fillers, 5 to 6 cents; 

 wrappers, 10 to 15 ceuts; White Burley, 7 cents. 



SALINE. Average value, 4 cents; lugs, 1 to 2 cents; leaf, shipping, 4 to 5 cents; fillers, air-cured, 5 to 8 

 cents. 



STODDARD. Average value, 5 cents; best heavy shipping, 8 cents; lugs of same, 3 to 4 cents; good air-cured 

 fillers, 9 cents; wrappers, 13 ceuts; trash and nondescript, 1 to 3 cents. 



SULLIVAN. Average price, 4 cents. 



WAKUEN. Average value, 7 cents; common heavy Ings, 2 cents; low leaf, 3 cents; fillers, manufacturing, 4 

 to 5 cents; wrappers, common, 6 to 7 cents; wrappers, fine, 8 to 15 cents. 

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