84 EXPORT AND MANUFACTURING TOBACCOS. 
TaBLE XXII.—Estimated total average annual production of Burley tobacco in the 
United States, distributed by States. 
States. Pounds. | States. i Pounds. 
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Bentueny ee As Bae Sek Rage oe Pal Ase Re 170, 000,000 || Scattered, principally in TMenmnescee and | 
CON OWS RE Ears eee Spin A Se a alge EN 18, 000, 000 | (Mites aU afer oes ess Rape ete Pest ep te ee 6, 000, 006 
Tagine EES Cate Me erg end hone 8, 000, 000 | a 
Wiest vanginia ts ssa) tacos ee wees oees 8, 000, 000 | Total Burley crop of the United 
IMSS OUT See eto Micro al ee eerie 5,000, 000 | | SHIURE Sg Sale ae Eee ae 215, 000, 000 
This estimate of the production of Burley tobacco will manifestly 
not tally very closely with the actual or estimated production of 
Burley in any one of the last few years. Asis well known, conditions 
themselves have been far from normal in the Burley territory. In 
1908, under the influence of the Burley Tobacco Growers’ Association, 
the planting of tobacco in much of the best Burley territory in 
Kentucky was entirely omitted. The Department of Agriculture 
- estimated the total production of Burley in that year at 35,000,000 
pounds. That was the first year that the department made esti- 
mates of total production by types, but unofficial estimates from 
reliable trade sources had generally given the Burley crop for the few 
years preceding at from 175,000,000 to 200,000,000 pounds per 
annum. In 1909 the department estimated the Burley crop at 
244,800,000 pounds and unofficial trade estimates generally put it 
from 250,000,000 to 300,000,000 pounds. In 1910 the planting of 
Burley was estimated by the Department at 15 per cent more than in 
1909. These two unusually large crops were manifestly abnormal 
and the result of abnormal trade conditions consequent upon ee 
elimination of the 1908 crop. 
Mr. T. M. Carrington, of Richmond, Va., in his annual eredennel 
address before The Tobacco Association of the United States, at 
the tenth annual convention, July 2, 1910, stated that the estimated 
normal consumption of Burley tobacco was around 200,000,000 
pounds per annum, which is probably not far from correct. In 
this light it is evident that the production of Burley can not perma- 
nently remain at an average near 250,000,000 or 300,000,000 pounds 
per annum until consumption has snnevteral ke merece) 
The estimates submitted in this bulletin, therefore, are not intended 
to represent any single crop of recent years nor to eile abnormal 
production of 1909 and 1910, but the effort has been made to repre- 
sent about a normal production. It must be said, however, that but 
for the abnormal conditions the production of Burley in such new 
sections as Missouri, Tennessee, and Virginia would have been 
much less even than estimated above, or perhaps in many cases 
there would have been no production. 
A study of the map of Kentucky in connection with the yield 
of tobacco, as given in Table XXI, will show a tier of counties in 
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