By) _ EXPORT AND MANUFACTURING TOBACCOS. 
decrease rather than to increase. On the other hand, the air and flue- 
cured types have enormously increased in acreage andl production. 
At the present time the average annual production of the air-cured 
types of tobacco is about as follows: 
Pounds. 
Cigar stobaccobs 2.2 x. 5 se Se eiiee he eee eee ee eee a aes 160, 000, 000 
Burley si F2 Sas kes aie Sa ee ne ee ee ee 215, 000, 000 
Green River.......- a ited ERE OS SEOs Set ce aetna 35, 000, 000 
One-Sucker types 3 2:23 ss ee Spat OE ta ee ee peat 30, 000, 000 
Virginia ;sun and: ain, Cured 22 5= ar eae eee eee 10, 000, 000 
Mary lande isms ee co ee ee Ne ener ae Be oe ees .. 20, 000, 000 
Mota les sash Coe es eS eS eas ot a ey A oe pee 470, 000, 000 
These air-cured types thus constitute more than 50 per cent of the 
total production of the country and, with the exception of the Mary- 
land type, are used principally in domestic manufacture for domestic 
consumption. The most important of these air-cured types, particu- 
larly the cigar tobaccos and Burley, have received their greatest devel- 
opment since the Civil War. 
The annual production of the dark types of tobacco eared by open 
fires is substantially as follows for the types of much importance: 
Pounds. 
Waireimids darks, Sieh 18 22 eo ee eee eee 52, 000, 000 
Hopkinsville and’ Clarksvaillle=: 3223) a5 ar a yee 70, 000, 000 
Pad calles eee er eee peers Gens le eee en Ts oe 60, 000, 000 — 
Henderson orsStemiming ss oee ste ee ee one 30, 000, 000 
astern Ohio @xportcucs 25 see aoe eee 3, 000, 000 
Total SA ews ey ee ee re 220, 000, 000 
The eastern Ohio export type, while it is an open-fired tobacco, can 
not properly be classed as a dark, heavy-bodied type, and it is really 
a type quite distinct from the other fire-cured types which are all dark, 
rich, heavy sorts. Eastern Ohio export tobacco more closely resem- 
bles the Maryland type, moves to market through the same trade 
channels, and is described more at length in connection with this type 
of tobacco. 
All of these fire-cured types had reached approximately their pres- 
ent state of development and annual production prior to the Civil 
War period. 
The annual production of the flue-cured type of tobacco vee 
about as follows: 
Pounds. 
Old Belt (Virginia and North Carolina) 225-525. - 2a 125, 000, 000 
New Belt (eastern North Carolina and South Carolina) -... 95, 000, 000 
TOtglesae ee os RE eS ee ee 220, 000, 000 
While this type had its beginnings several years before the Civil 
War period, it is nevertheless in its present development essentially 
a new type and indeed its great development on its present basis has 
taken place mostly since 1890, especially in the New Belt section. 
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