Data on the ciirnnt tobacco industr) in Louisiana have been sup- 

 phed by the Economic Research Service, United States Department 

 of Agriculture; the Louisiana Cooperative Evtension Service; and by 

 the Tobacco Tax Council, Richmond, Va. 



Special notes of thanks are due to Mr. Daniel Fontenot, jr., County 

 Agent. St. James Parish; Mr. Jacob Martin and Mr. Jim Martin of 

 Grande Pointe; and to Mr. I^)uis Aristee Poche, Convent, La. 



-Material on the history of tobacco and Louisiana came from Hvionj 

 of Agriculture in Southern United States to 1860 by Lewis Cecil Gray, 

 \oliunes I and II ( 1958); The Story of Tobacco in America, Joseph C. 

 Robert (1952); Tobacco and Americans, Robert K. Heimann (1960); 

 The Champagne of Tobaccos, a research paper b)' Neal T. M. Poche 

 (1955); St. James Parish, Hiitory and Resources, Loui.siana Coop-' 

 erative Extension Service (1966); Perique Tobacco. A Small But 

 Steady Outfmt, J. E. McMurtrey, Jr., as reprinted in Tobacco, the 

 International Weekly (1964); the History of Louisiana . . ., M. 

 Le Page du Pratz, translated into English from French (1763). 



Tlu.' quotations on pages 17 and 18 are from Le Page du Pratz 

 and can be found in the Arents Collectioas, New York Public Library, 

 the Astor, Leno.x .uu' I ild.n foundations. The quotation on p. 23 is 

 from The Kentud igatiim, Marv VerhoefF ( Fihon Club, 



1917). 



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