489 QUANTITY GROWN IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES. 
than in any other state, being 1,700 pounds, while the small- 
est yield is in Georgia, 350 pounds. The average price per 
pound in Connecticut is 25cts; in Kentucky 7 7-10cts ; in Geor- 
gia 21 4-10cts; in Ohio 9 1-10cts; and in Pennsylvania 15 2-10 
cts. In 1855 there was exported from this country 150,213 
hogsheads and 13,366 cases of tobacco. 
In Europe large quantities of tobacco are grown, excepting 
in England, Spain, and Portugal, where its culture is prohibit- 
ed by law to benefit the colonial growers of the plant. Austria 
is the great tobacco-producing country of Europe, and yields 
an annual product of 45,000,000 pounds of tobacco; the leaf 
is of good quality, and is used for cigars. France also raises 
about 30,000,000 pounds of tobacco besides importing large 
quantities from the United States. In Russia the annual 
tobacco crop is about 25,000,000 pounds. In Holland about 
as much tobacco is grown as in the state of Connecticut— 
6,000,000 pounds and the product is adapted for both cigar 
and snuff-leaf. Large quantities of tobacco are also imported, 
from 30,000,000 to 35,000,000 pounds. The tobacco factories in 
the country are stated to give employment to one million oper- 
atives. Belgium produces considerable tobacco, about 3,000,- 
000 pounds annually. Switzerland also raises from 1,000,000 
to 1,200,000 pounds of leaf. In Greece tobacco is an impor- 
tant product and the quality of leaf is very fine; her product 
has been as high as 5,500,000 pounds. 
In Asia tobacco has long been cultivated, and is one of the 
greatest products of the country. In both Asiatic and 
European Turkey the annual production is about 43,000,000 
pounds. In China and Japan large quantities are grown, as 
well as in Persia, Thibet, and other portions of Asia. In the 
Philippine Islands its cultivation is carried on by the Span- 
iards, as it has been for upwards of 250 years. Bowring says 
of its culture :-— | 
“The money value of the tobacco grown in the Philippines 
is estimated at from 4,000,000 to 5,000,000 of dollars, say 
1,000,000]. sterling. Of this nearly one half is consumed in 
the island, one quarter is exported in the form of cheroots 
(which is the Oriental word for cigars), and the remainder 
