Data on various phases of the tobacco industry in Illinois have 

 been supplied by the Illinois Cooperative Crop Reporting Service 

 (Department of Agriculture), the Department of Labor, the Depart- 

 ment of Revenue, and the Division of Industrial Planning and Develop- 

 ment, all of Illinois. 



Other data have been derived from publications of the National 

 Tobacco Tax Association, the Tobacco Tax Council (Richmond, Vir- 

 ginia), and various publications of tlie federal government including 

 "Statistics of Manufacturers of Tobacco compiled from returns of the 

 Tenth Census," J. R. Dodge, and "Report on .. .Tobacco," J. B. Kille- 

 brew, both in Report on the Productions of Agriculture (both 1883). 



General works which provided valuable information were several 

 volumes in the Fergus Historical Series; The Industrial State, Ernest 

 L. Bogart and Charles M. Thompson, and The Modern Common- 

 wealth, Bogart and John M. Mathews, both in The Centennial History 

 of Illinois ( 1920); Illinois, A Descriptive and Historical Guide, Federal 

 Writers' Project of the WPA (1947). The first quotations on page 8 

 are from The Commerce of America with Europe, De Warville and 

 Claviere, trans, by Joel Barlow (1795); the second passage is from 

 Illinois in 1837, anonymous (1837); that on page 9 is from Illinois . . . 

 Federal Writers' Project of the WPA ( 1947). 



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