50 EXPORT AND MANUFACTURING TOBACCOS. 
Baltimore types is nearly all exported, and France and Holland 
remain, as in the early days, the most regular, dependable, and 
important customers. The tobacco included under this head is the 
annual product of three districts, as follows: 
Pounds. 
Southern Maryland: o2")soek eee ee ee eee je ee eee 17, 000, 000 
Upper-county<Marnyland orsbay sess ce = see ee ae 1, 000, 000 
Hastern Ohio export. --¢ = 4265 eee ace ere eee 3, 000, 000 
Approximate totale: neces eee 21, 000, 000 
The tobacco of each of these three districts is marketed through 
Baltimore. The trade generally speaks of Maryland tobacco in 
terms of hogsheads, which average about 700 pounds net weight 
each. The average annual production of the three districts amounts 
to not far from 30,000 hogsheads. About 90 per cent of this tobacco 
is exported and 10 per cent used in domestic consumption. 
In domestic consumption Maryland tobacco is used to some 
extent in the manufacture of low-grade cigars, the quantity utilized 
for this purpose varying considerably each year, depending upon 
the relation between the prices of tobacco of these types and of 
the regular cigar types. In the last few years also, owing to the 
high price of Burley, there has been a considerable increase in the 
quantity of the Baltimore types taken for domestic consumption to, 
substitute for Burley, particularly from the upper-county and! 
eastern Ohio grades where Burley seed is quite generally used. 
DISTRIBUTION IN USE. 
A good idea of the market distribution of Maryland tobacco may 
be had from the annual trade review of the Baltimore tobacco market 
issued by Van Kapff & Arens, under date of January 3, 1910, cover- 
ing the previous year’s transactions, an extract from which is shown 
in Table XIII. : 
TaBLeE XIII.—Distribution of Maryland and (eastern) Ohio tobacco in 1909. 
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Where distributed. Hogsheads. | Where distributed. Hogsheads. 
IDI RATI Gowns Sener RNG oe Suances mS 10,316 5|| tally one ee ee ek eee ee 125 
Holand ee eee eee oe eee 11,792 |} England and North Europe....-...-..- 91 
IBT CMON oa sen he Ree eee hemes ae 1,330 | Home consump on sos--se ee eee 4, 243 
Ie Yen] ud eG oe Sas sa Seo oes 1,141 a 
GAGE Wert tee ae ees ee ee ee 84 | Total Mic cco cee eee 29, 886 
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Much the larger portion of these Baltimore types of tobacco is 
air-cured. All of the southern Maryland type is air-cured, which 
is in itself nearly 80 per cent of the total, and in late years all but a 
very small proportion of the upper-county product has been also 
air-cured. Originally this upper-county tobacco, generally spoken 
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