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produced 1 in each. Counties hke Mecklenburg and Charlotte in Vir-. 
ginia produce considerable quantities of both the flue-cured and the 
darl-fred type. The estimate of such counties is for the flue-cured 
type only. | 
TaBLE X VII.—Estimated annual production of the flue-cured type of tobacco in the 
Old Belt section of Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, distributed by counties. 
Counties. | Pounds. | Counties. Pounds. | Counties. | Pounds. 
| | 
Virginia: || North Carolina: | North Carolina—Con. | 
Pittsylvania. ....-. /16, 000, 000 Granvyallle=seeee=e- 7,500,000 | Guilford | 2,000, 000 
ia litaxeee aes 14,000, 000 Rockingham...... 7,000, 000 SYiadikinw 25° sees 1, 000,000 
Mecklenburg...... 7,500,000 || Caswelleciaze sees 6, 000, 000 IWHILKeSESs sae eames 500, 000 
Henny ose tan ne 4,000, 000 ‘Persone. s-o sie 5,500,000 | Iredell aie ese 500. 000 
Lunenburg......- 4,000, 000 Stokessaio-.-oser 5,000,000 || Tennessee: 
Franklin......... 3,500,000 Viste nee 5,000, 000 | Greanes: 23.7 eee 500, 000 
Charloties 2-22.22. 2,000, 000 ieee aoe. - SOOO 000M Scattered 2ee= = eee eer 500, 000 
Ipatnickese sees ee 2,000, 000 Alamance...._.... 4.000, 000 —————— 
Brunswick....... 1,000, 000 IWiakeisie mere 3,000,000 | Total, North 
Nottoway......-- 500.000 OUTlCy 25.4 eee 3,000, 000 Carolina and 
Prince Edward...| 500,000 Durham pee 2,500,000 | Tennessee... . ./65,000, 000 
—_———- Wiarren ee soe ss 2,500,000 
Total for Vir- | } Oranget2 eee. 2.000, 000 | 
- ginia........../55,000, 000 Davidson ....._._- 2,000,000 | 
Grand total, Old Belt section, 120,000,000 pounds. 
This Old Belt section might be still further subdivided into the 
eastern and western subsection, or into the Winston Salem and the 
Danville subsections. The soil grows progressively more clayey as 
one proceeds westward, and the change is reflected in the quality of 
the tobacco produced. The western subsection is noted for the large 
proportion of leaf adapted for use as fillers for flat plug as manufac- 
tured so extensively at Winston Salem, N. C. Henry County, Va., 
and Stokes County, N. C., are sepiecl ede noted for the fine quality 
of fillers produced atonal for this class of plug. 
The proportion of mahogany or red tobacco in this western sub- 
section of the Old Belt is also much greater than in the eastern part. 
An approximate line separating the western from the eastern parts 
of the Old Belt would show Franklin and Henry Counties in Virginia 
and a part of Rockingham County in North Carolina and all west to 
the Blue Ridge in the western or Winston Salem subsection of the 
Old Belt section. : 
Danville, Va., Winston Salem, N. C., and South Boston, Va., are 
the most important first-hand markets for the Old Belt. These three 
markets sell from first hands fully 50 per cent of the total Old Belt 
productions. 
THE NEW BELT SECTION. 
Table XVIII gives a list of the important producing counties of the 
New Belt section, with estimates of average production. 
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