centration of American buying power has, how- 
ever, been a formidable check on it, the prices 
received by the growers being now fair and 
reasonable, and such as are the result of a 
healthy market, where the factors of supply 
and demand have their full share of effect. 
The government statistics show that for 1914 
the prices of leaf varied from 5.5c to 20c for 
common to good varieties. 
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