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to Europe. In Virginia and North Carolina, the principal 

 type is the bright yellow, which is manufactured into smok- 

 ing and chewing tobacco. Two or three other types are 

 grown in a small way in other sections, but they are com- 

 paratively unimportant. 



641. Importance of the Crop. The tobacco crop of the 

 world averaged 2,454,082,000 pounds annually for the five 

 years from 1905 to 1909. Of this crop, about two-sevenths, 

 or 736,201,000 pounds, were grown in the United States. 

 Among the other countries where tobacco is largely grown 

 are British India, with an annual crop of 450,000,000 pounds; 



34.5 ff% 



Fig. 146. Percentage of the tobacco crop of the United States produced in each 

 of the leading states, 1902-1911. 



Russia, with 197,446,000 pounds; and Austria-Hungary, with 

 169,524,000 pounds. Cuba's crop averaged 51,798,000 

 pounds for this period; this was mostly high-priced cigar-leaf 

 tobacco. Other important countries in the production of 

 this crop are Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Turkey, the 

 Dutch East Indies, and Japan. 



The average area devoted to this crop in the United States 

 for the period from 1902 to 1911 was 982,000 acres, with a 

 mean yield of 826.3 pounds to the acre. The total pro- 

 duction averaged 809,420,000 pounds, valued at $72,771,000. 

 The accompanying diagram shows that more than 

 one-third of the entire tobacco crop of the United States 



