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any exact limits of price at which either of these phenomena would 
become operative, but it is usually possible to do so approximately 
under given conditions. Certainly at a price near or below cost the 
production should automatically begin to diminish and at a price 
high enough to return a greater profit than other available products 
the acreage and production should automatically tend to increase. 
In the case of Burley tobacco there is nothing to indicate any scar- 
city of soil adapted to its cultivation. Under existing natural con- 
ditions the writer believes that the production of Burley should tend 
automatically to expand at a general price level of about 10 cents a 
pound, and it would probably tend to decrease should it get down to 
8 cents or below for any considerable length of time. 
DISTRIBUTION IN USE. 
As it passes finally into consumption the distribution in use of 
Burley tobacco on a farm-weight basis is estimated to be about as 
shown in Table XX. 
TaBLE X X.—Estimated approximate distribution in use of Burley tobacco. 
Grade. Pounds. Grade. | Pounds. 
Jello nll eres ee SU Aa sek ren ee TOOZOOOZOOOM Gram arin eee ey ype es nn 3, 000, 000 
Cut plusistockeer sense = eee sae GCOROOOSOOOR I Ciganc tues es =e s- ee ase eee eer 3, 000, 000 
Wone-cutisnrokime ee ne ae LS OOOS COON i aAEG x7) OG ete teat sys eicyarae yay ae aie ere 9, 000, 000 
LDN iI Bis es Bh eae ee OR rae ere eRe 10, 000, 000 ne 
ine-cuitrehewin cease eee 10, 000, 000 PTO Gallia cre sen, Celera ss ieee J ane agg 215, 000, 000 
Scrap chewing tobacco........-------- 5, 000, 000 
The great bulk of the plug-filler stock mentioned in Table XX is 
used in the manufacture of plug tobacco of the heavily sweetened 
type. Considerable of the best Burley is used in the manufacture 
of some of the western so-called natural-leaf types of flat plug. 
DISTRIBUTION OF ACREAGE. 
The great bulk of Burley tobacco is grown in Kentucky, in the 
central and northern portions of the State. Table X XI shows the 
estimated distribution of its growth in Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana. 
The tobacco grown in West Virginia is practically all Burley. 
Reliable estimates of the quantity produced are very difficult to 
obtain. Estimates by men in touch with the situation range from 
5,000,000 to 15,000,000 pounds, produced mostly in Cabell, Putnam, 
Lincoln, and Kanawha Counties, south of the Kanawha River. 
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