PRODUCTION OF TOBACCO LEAF IN 
THE UNITED STATES 
The amount of tobacco leaf raised annually 
in the United States varies from 700 million 
Ibs. to 1,000 million Ibs. Thus, according to 
the Government Statistical Reports, the pro- 
duction in 1909 was 1,055,764,806 lbs., being 
an unusually high figure. The production in 
1918 was 958,734,000 Ibs. and in 1914, 
1,034,679,000 lbs. The average crop may be 
taken as about 800 million lbs., about half of 
which is exported as leaf, and the other half 
manufactured in the U. S. into cigars, smoking 
and chewing tobaccos, etc., and consumed in 
the U. S. To produce this immense crop over 
one million acres of rich, fertile land is under 
culture, the actual government figures for 1913 
being 1,216,000 acres, and for 1914, 1,224,000, 
and the value of the raw crop is from 80 to 
100 million dollars, which works out to an 
average value of from 10 to 12 cents per |b. 
The cost of producing the best grades of cigar 
leaf in the Eastern States is from 8 to 10 cents 
per lb.; is Wisconsin from 5 to 10 cents. The 
price paid to the growers is from 5 to 15 cents, 
except for the highest grades (cigar wrapper 
leaf) for which special prices, up to 40 or 50 
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