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cigarette tobacco, and in addition it is susceptible of a much broader 
field of usefulness. Because of this much greater all-round use- 
fulness and adaptability, the jury finally gave it the same award as 
the Turkish leaf, ranking them on an equal basis of merit and both 
were granted gold medals. 
SUBDIVISIONS OF THE FLUE-CURED DISTRICT. 
Broadly speaking, two quite well-defined subdivisions of producing 
area, reflected in a material modification in the general character of 
the tobacco produced, are recognized in the flue-cured territory, 
extending as it does from the piedmont and even the mountain sec- 
tion of western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee to the coast 
country of eastern North Carolina and South Carolina. 
Up to the late eighties of the last century flue-cured tobacco was 
not produced in commercial quantities of importance east of Warren, 
Franklin, and Wake Counties in North Carolina, and the easternmost 
market town of importance for the sale of leaf tobacco was Hen- 
derson, N. C. 
It was, however, grown even farther westward in the mountain 
section than at present. In the eighties of the last century the pro- 
duction of flue-cured tobacco had a considerable boom in some of 
the counties of east Tennessee and in the southern part of West 
Virginia. Buncombe and Madison Counties, N. C., were then quite 
heavy producing counties and Asheville and Marshall in these two 
counties, respectively, were important leaf markets. Greenville and 
Bristol, across the State line in Tennessee, also developed into market 
points of considerable importance. | ; 
The production of flue-cured tobacco has long since been abandoned 
in West Virginia and Burley now holds sway there. But little 
tobacco is now produced in the extremely hilly counties of western 
North Carolina, and Asheville and Marshall are no longer leaf markets. 
In Greene County, Tenn., however, a considerable interest in 
tobacco growing still persists and the production has been something 
like 1,000,000 pounds annually for some years. In 1908 and since 
then, owing to the extremely high prices of Burley, the total tobacco 
acreage in eastern Tennessee subsidiary to Greenville as a market 
center has greatly increased. The estimated production in 1909 was 
from 3,000,000 to 5,000,000 pounds, less than half a millon of which, 
however, was estimated to be of the flue-cured type, the interest 
having shifted to Burley. Bristol, which in its best years sold about 
5,000,000 pounds of tobacco, has long since ceased to be a market. 
All of the present flue-cured territory in Virginia and in western 
and central North Carolina to and including the counties of Warren, 
Franklin, and most of Wake is generally known among tobacco 
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