22 EXPORT AND MANUFACTURING TOBACCOS. 
more than doubled during the period. The production of these- 
cigar types in 1909 was distributed as shown in Table IV. The 
official crop-report figures of the Bureau of Statistics are used. 
TasLe IV.—Production, yield per acre, and value in 1909 of the cigar types of tobacco 
in the United States, by disiricts. 
Farm 
rs value per 
Section. Production. | Y ¢!d per pound 
acre 
: Deer te 
1909. 
Pounds. Pounds. Cents. 
ne Gh ies] Op cd Erb 0 V6 Deore ne Seg Ma Ne ees a a Ae ie ite ete we cra Poy Eve NR Ou 29, 655, 000 1, 638 15.9 
NING Wye VOTRE 2p ys ae nae NG, Seep ep a ahem os a eS 7, 050, 000 1,175 8.0 
ram Syyr Veet sss Ses ee oR A Noe 2 2 PR eae ea 30, 732, 000 985 9.0 
Ohio Maa mT Walle ys ss Sa eee ey parte ce Bia ree eee Ar 8 er eta 49, 500, 000 900 9.5 
AYES CKO OUST Na BS & ac rr Ne ann ALA LE MG ne are eee sin Seen ae cenp cas al auW uh (ice) 37,170, 000 1,180 9.2 
TDI oyeKS leh eNaVS ME Vey eather Ree ee SU ere ei hE Ee het ee aia 4, 665, 000 707 34. 0 
i) DCO) Feo) VE lectern ee tore ne ea ere ee te cle Ra Mee he lore US Bt paste A A 158; 7:22, 000 io weet ees |e pone 
By comparing Table IV with Table III (p. 18), showing the pro- 
duction in 1849 and 1859, it will be seen that this development took 
place entirely in connection with the areas as then established, 
except in the case of Wisconsin, which did not become of recognized 
importance until in the seventies. | 
The development of tobacco growing in Wisconsin from 1870 to 
1880 was exceedingly rapid. In 1859 Wisconsin produced but 87,340 
pounds of tobacco; in 1869, 960,813 pounds; and in 1879, 10,608,423 
pounds. The maximum crop of tobacco was produced in Wisconsin 
in 1903, the figures for that year being 69,946,200 pounds, so oe 
the 1909 crop is considerably below the ee 
The Florida and Georgia area is a wrapper-producing cottons 
The production is confined principally to Gadsden County and to 
contiguous areas across the State line in Decatur County, Ga. The 
tobacco is produced largely under expensive slat or cloth shade and 
comes more directly into competition with the imported Sumatra 
product than any other. It is the highest-priced type of tobacco 
produced in this country. : 
The New England area, confined principally to the Connecticut 
and Housatonic River valleys, is classed as a wrapper and binder 
section. The tobacco is produced mainly in the open, without 
shade, under intensive methods of fertilizing, cultivation, and han- 
dling. The highest-grade leaf makes acceptable wrappers for cigars 
and the remainder is principally useful for binder purposes. Since 
1901 a considerable acreage of shade-grown tobacco has been pro- 
duced in Connecticut each year. More recently there has been a 
marked expansion in acreage of shade-grown tobacco in that section, 
but with what degree of permanence of course remains to be revealed. 
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