70 EXPORT AND MANUFACTURING TOBACCOS. 
In noting the production by counties as shown in Table XVIII for. 
eastern North Carolina it will be seen that the growing of tobacco 
almost ceases in Cumberland, Sampson, and Bladen Counties. This 
section of country is really the dividing line between the eastern 
North Carolina section as a separate district and the South Carolina 
section. The border counties, Robeson and Columbus, of North Caro- 
lina, are really more closely identified with the South Carolina district 
than with the eastern North Carolina portion of the New Belt. 
The principal market centers of the New Belt are Wilson, Green- 
ville, Kinston, and Rocky Mount in eastern North Carolina, and 
Mullins, Darlington, Lake City, and Timmonsville in South Carolina. 
These eight markets sell from first hands about 70 per cent of the 
total New Belt crop. The remainder is divided between a consider- 
able number of small markets selling usually from 1,000,000 to 
3,000,000 pounds each. 
All things considered, this flue-cured type of tobacco is unsurpassed 
in universal popularity and general adaptability to a variety of uses, 
including granulated and cut smoking tobacco, both paper and all- 
tobacco cigarettes, and plug filler and wrapper; in fact it is adapted 
to practically all the regular forms in which tobacco is used except 
standard cigars and snuff. In color and general appearance it is very 
attractive, while its low nicotine content, mildness, aromatic sweet- 
ness, fragrance, and good keeping qualities render it very satisfying to 
the user. 
The two subdivisions of the flue-cured district are outlined on the 
map (Pl. I, in pocket). 
WHITE BURLEY TOBACCO. 
ORIGIN AND EARLY DEVELOPMENT. 
The cultivation of tobacco in Kentucky and Ohio was introduced 
by the pioneer settlers from Virginia and Maryland in the period 
succeeding the Revolutionary War. Many of these settlers occupied 
the lands along either side of the Ohio River. : 
Whether the development of Burley tobacco in this section was 
from the Maryland type of seed, like that of the eastern Ohio export 
tobacco, or from the Virginia type of seed, history does not make 
clear. Burley tobacco more closely resembles the tobacco of Mary- 
land in general appearance than it resembles the Virginia type. This 
is true in point of general character, including body and color, and 
both are air-cured tobaccos, while the Virginia types, excepting the 
‘“‘sun-cured,’”’ are cured by artificial heat, either by open fires or by 
flues. : 
The origin of the name Burley is uncertain, but is said by some to 
be derived from the name of a grower or, perhaps, as others think, 
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