80 EXPORT AND MANUFACTURING TOBACCOS. 
A number of factors must of course be considered to determine the 
grade of the same class of leaf as fineness, brightness, size of leaf, body, 
etc., and at best they serve only as approximations. Figure 32 shows 
samples of several grades of Burley leaf, varying in quality from poor 
to fine. ) 
The most important markets for the sale of Burley tobacco are 
Cincinnati, Ohio, and Louisville and Lexington, Ky. A considerable 
proportion of the tobacco that goes to the Louisville and Cincinnati 
Fic. 32.—Burley tobacco, flyer, colory leaf, and red-plug filler. (Photographed by the Bureau of Soils. ) 
markets, however, is not first-hand farmers’ tobacco, but is leaf that 
had been bought up by speculators and dealers in the country and 
then shipped to these markets for sale. 
FLUCTUATIONS IN PRODUCTION. 
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From 1907 to the fall of 1910 the price of Burley has been very 
high because of the artificial condition created by the growers’ selling 
organizations in their efforts to restrict the supply and elevate the 
prices. In consequence the price average has been more than 12 
cents a pound during most of this period. 
With tobacco, as with almost every other agricultural product in 
which the available acreage is not naturally restricted, there is an 
approximate price at which the acreage and production will naturally 
tend to expand rapidly and another at which it will tend to decrease. 
So many factors are at work that it is, of course, impossible to assign 
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