types grown in Kentucky and Tennessee was being pro- 

 duced. A good deal of this went to English, Continental 

 and African markets. 



By 1880, however, the opinion was expressed by agri- 

 cultural economists that not one farmer in ten growing 

 tobacco in southern Illinois was deriving any profit from 

 his labors. 



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anufactiaring replaces an 



unprofitable agriculture 



Meanwhile, with tobacco agriculture declining 

 throughout the state, the swing to manufacturing of 

 tobacco products was well on its way. By 1880 Illinois 

 held fourth place among the states in the production 

 of cigars, a rank it long maintained. In that year its fac- 

 tories produced more than 132.5 million of the brown 

 rolls from over 3 million pounds of leaf. 



From other plants in the same period came nearly 2 

 million cigarettes, over 2,5 million pounds of chewing 

 tobacco and about 460,000 pounds of smoking tobacco. 

 This production rate was well maintained and within 

 the next decade the total wholesale value of these manu- 

 factured goods was placed at about $7 million. 



Production was expanding in all the tobacco manu- 

 facturing centers of the United States. Finding new and 

 distinctive brand names was a persistent problem and 

 one which was often doubtfully solved. Illinois manu- 



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