Plant beds must be carefully maintained during 

 initial stages of Burleij growth 



Courtesy, the Tobacco Experiment Station, Greeneville, Te: 



that year was 31,500 acres. Burley farmers in 1924 

 harvested just over 27 milHon pounds. 



Production of Burley has increased considerably since 

 that time as it is grown today in most of Tennessee's 

 95 counties. In 1971 Tennessee Burley farmers har- 

 vested 82,593,000 pounds on 39,900 acres, averaging 

 2,070 pounds per acre. The crop was sold through some 

 20 markets at a total crop value of $66,240,000, averag- 

 ing approximately 80.2 cents per pound. 



Smokers have found that the taste of cigarettes im- 

 proves considerably with the addition of Burley tobacco. 

 On an average, 35 percent of the tobacco in cigarettes 

 is Burley. The leaf is also used in domestic pipe and 

 chewing tobaccos; a little goes into some varieties of 

 snuff. 



