

Tennessee Burley on the way to maturity. 



Courtesy, the Tobacco Experiment Station, Greeneville, Tenn. 



tured, leaf tobacco, and as a manufactured product in 

 the form of cigars, cigarettes, smoking and chewing 

 tobacco. 



Since Kentucky and Tennessee are the major pro- 

 ducers of Burley, most of type 31 shipped overseas 

 comes from fields in those two states. In 1971 West 

 Germany, Sweden, Italy, Denmark, Switzerland, The 

 Netherlands, Japan and Thailand were the major 

 buyers. These countries and a few others purchased 

 36,535,000 pounds of Burley valued at $38,540,000 in 

 1971. In addition, both Kentucky and Tennessee ex- 

 ported 19,622,000 pounds of fire-cured tobaccos valued 

 at $13,402,000 and more than a half million pounds of 

 One Sucker at $312,000. 



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