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In Tennessee, production is most concentrated in the northern part 
of Smith County, where much long tobacco particularly suited to the 
rehandling export trade is produced, and also in Macon County, where 
tobacco somewhat shorter but with good body and texture is produced, 
suitable for domestic manufacturing purposes. 
THE ONE-SUCKER TYPE IN SOUTHERN INDIANA. 
Across the Ohio River about opposite Daviess County in Kentucky 
there is a section in southern Indiana that also produces annually 
some 5,000,000 or 6,000,000 pounds of tobacco of the One-Sucker 
type. The leaf, however, is perhaps somewhat larger and coarser 
than it is in Kentucky and Tennessee. Formerly this district was 
much more extensive than at present and the tobacco produced was 
marketed principally at Evansville. ; 
In the seventies and early eighties of the last century the maximum 
of production was reached in this southern Indiana section, after 
which it almost ceased in the early nineties. It was taken up again 
in a small way in the late nineties, however, and in the last few years, 
owing to high prices, has expanded probably to some 6,000,000 or 
8,000,000 pounds in 1910. The heaviest producing center is the 
southwestern part of Spencer County. ‘The soil is fertile and the 
tobacco produced is rather coarse but long and well suited to the 
rehandling export trade. The principal receiving and shipping points 
of the southern Indiana portion of the One-Sucker territory are Rock- 
port, Booneville, and Dale. | 
PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF ACREAGE. 
The entire production of One-Sucker tobacco in the southern Ken- 
tucky, upper Cumberland, and southern Indiana districts is quite 
variable, tending to expand rapidly with good prices and to shrink 
when they are low. A fair average for recent years, however, is prob- 
ably about 30,000,000 pounds per annum, of which about 18,000,000 
pounds is produced in Kentucky, 7,000,000 pounds in Tennessee, and 
5,000,000 pounds insouthern Indiana. Under the somewhat artificial 
condition of very recent years the combined production of the One- 
Sucker types of tobacco in these districts has run probably nearer 
35,000,000 pounds than 30,000,000. 
The production in the One-Sucker districts of Kentucky, Ten- 
nessee, and Indiana is shown in Table XXIV. 
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