FLUE-CURED TOBACCO. 69 
TasBLeE XVIII.—Estimated acreage of annual production of flue-cured tobacco in the 
New Belt sections of North Carolina and South Carolina, distributed by counties, and 
the total production in all districts of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and 
Tennessee. 
Counties. Pounds. | Counties. ° Pounds. Counties. Pounds. 
North Carolina: North Carolina—Con. South Carolina: 
JONAS oe een Rear nig 12, 000, 000 JOneSHEe eee eee 2, 000, 000 Marionette sees 5, 000, 000 
INasht on ae/5 ee 8, 000, 000 Columbusha"2oe2—- 2, 000, 000 Darlington........ 5, 000, 000 
Wilson measee eerie 6, 000, 000 | IS CRUE Sere west 1, 750, 000 Mlorencemsea ee 3, 500, 000 
Greene eee ae 6, 000, 000 Cravens 2222-22) 195005000 Williamsburg. ..-. 3, 000, 000 
IL@IMNG WP Shea es SScues 5, 000, 000 Sampson ee esa see 1, 000, 000 Clarendon....-..- 2, 500, 000 
JOHNS tONS:s5-55- -- 3, 500, 000 | Cumberland. ..... 500, 000 IDM Ne Ss soocesbese 2, 000, 000 
Daphne aan 3, 500, 000 Beautortece senses 500, 000 FOLEY eee SES 2,000, 000 
Robeson........-- 3, 500, 000 Bladenks sant. 500, 000 CG Ae a cea es 500, 000. 
Wiaymen eee 3, 000, 000 aE e tite sess 250, 000 Sumperaseer ease 500, 000 
Mantingaese eee 3, 000, 000 Other counties. _|} 1,000, 000 Georgetown......- 500, 000 
DE Qiifasxee err ae 2,500, 000 | ——__—_. Other counties. . 500, 000 
Wider s ani area 2,000, 000 | Total for New —_—_—— 
Edgecombe.....-- 2,000, 000 | Belt of east- Total for New 
| ern North Belt of South 
Carolina... ..- 70, 000, 000 Carolina... .-. 25, 000, 000 
Pounds. 
Total New Belt of eastern North Carolina and South Carolina........................-.------ 95, 000, 000 
Ter tend Ohl GHGS G lhe eetin tops Ue pate ttt MRS ag A cco ud ape ys tN et ey eRe hea ek SOLA 120, 000, 000 
Grand total annual production of flue-cured tobacco for all districts of Virginia, North 
Chinoihingy, Syominan Caroline eyo Wieimeshese u See ON be ee es ees oe eee ee 215, 000, 000 
As in the case of the Old Belt section, the New Belt section might 
with some reason be again subdivided into two subsections repre- 
sentative of noticeable differences in the quality of the tobacco itself, 
broadly speaking, and of methods of cultivation and handling, par- 
ticularly in respect to the manner of placing the tobacco on the 
market. As a whole the South Carolina soils are more sandy than 
those of the eastern North Carolina section, particularly the portion 
east of the Pedee River, resulting in some modifications of body and 
color in the tobacco produced. 
The South Carolina product is on the whole perhaps paler in color 
and lighter in body, though this distinction of course would not hold 
for certain sections of South Carolina, particularly that portion west 
of the Pedee. The eastern part of Darlington County, in the vicinity 
of Montclare, and Clarendon County, in the Pudding Swamp neighbor- 
hood, are especially famed for the fine quality of leaf produced. 
In the South Carolina section the growers have adopted the prac- 
tice in the last few years of selling the tobacco ungraded and not tied 
into hands, although of course the very fact of priming the tobacco 
on the plant a few leaves at a time as they ripen makes for a certain 
degree of grading, since the ground leaves, middle leaves, and tops 
naturally fall more or less into curings by themselves. In 1909 it was 
estimated that fully 80 per cent of the South Carolina crop was sold 
in this way, ungraded, and not tied up. This practice serves still 
further to differentiate the South Carolina portion of the New Belt 
from the eastern North Carolina portion. 
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