MARYLANDVIRGINIAN
YearStock
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last of
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18404,89014,57018,3991,06124534923422285
18411,06119,62918,3212,36928534663025726
18422,36920,82119,0674,123726672958981557
18434,12318,48315,0047,6021557554142422856
18447,60216,97818,3386,2422856509242823666
18456,24224,25124,5715,9223666158830992155
18465,92226,78523,7888,9192155238624562085
18478,91921,74320,6819,98120859112079917
18489,98112,0849,93512,1309178471054710
184912,13019,28522,1129,30371011731734149
KENTUCKY STEMS
YearStock
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18401813,8033,6992852853336245641651
18412855,2064,9415501651708570541682
18425509,4078,9391018168241515386447
184310187,4856,441206244739693447969
184420629,7369,569222996947535513209
1845226911,43910,3283340209527341521330
184633405,0286,09922691330609247162706
184722693,8165,01310722706678880381456
184810724,4484,9805401456491244731895
18495404,6204,7464141895518850831000

Culture and Statistics in the United States.—Tobacco has been the great staple of the States of Virginia and Maryland from their first settlement. About the year 1642 it became a royal monopoly, and afterwards, in order to encourage its growth in the colonies, and thereby increase the revenue of the Crown, Parliament prohibited the planting of it in England. The average quantity shipped from the North American colonies to the parent country, for ten years preceding the year 1709, was about twenty-nine millions of pounds. For some years prior to the American revolution, about 85,000 hhds. were exported, then valued at little more than four millions of dollars, and constituting nearly one-third the value of all the exports of the British North American colonies. From 1820 to 1830 tobacco constituted about one-ninth in value of all the domestic exports of the United States. It finds a market principally in Great Britain, France, Holland, and the north of Europe.[55] The crop of tobacco produced in the four principal States, was in—

1838.
hhds.		1839.
hhds.
Virginia26,00045,000
Kentucky27,00035,000
Maryland16,00016,000
Ohio3,0004,000
72,000100,000

The whole crop of 1840 was 219,163,319 lbs., which, at the estimate of 1,200 lbs. to the hhd., would be equal to 182,636 hhds., and at the average price of that year, 81 dollars 5 cents. per hhd., would make the value of the crop of the United States 14,802,647 dollars 80 cents. The average annual export for the ten years ending with 1840, was 96,775 hhds. The actual exportation of 1840 was 119,484 hhds. The principal exports are formed of the produce of Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Maryland, and North Carolina. The exports are chiefly to the following countries—about 30,000 hhds. annually to England, 15,000 hhds. to France, 20,000 hhds. to Holland, 25,000 hhds. Germany, and about 22,000 hhds. to other countries. The whole crop for 1845 was put down at 187,422,000 lbs. In 1839, it was ascertained that one and a half million persons were engaged in the cultivation and manufacture of tobacco in the United States, one million of whom were so occupied in the States of Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri. In the city of New York the consumption of cigars is computed at 10,000 dollars a day, a sum greater than that which the inhabitants pay for their daily bread; and in the whole country the annual consumption of tobacco is estimated at 120 million pounds, being 7 lbs. for every man, woman, and child, at an annual cost to the consumers of 20 million dollars (more than four million pounds sterling).

It is estimated that the manufacture of tobacco in the United States is increasing at the rate of 2,000 hhds. per annum.

hhds.
The quantity manufactured in 1851, was stated at55,000
Exportations for the year estimated at120,000
175,000

The production for 1852 is supposed to be as follows:—

hhds.
Virginia27,000
Maryland33,000
Western States, including frosted65,000
Total production125,000
Deficiency in the year's crop50,000

The quantity produced in the United States, in 1847, was 220,164,000 lbs., worth, at 5 cents per lb., nearly 11 million dollars (more than two million sterling). The principal producing States were—Kentucky, 65 million lbs.; Virginia, 50 millions; Tennessee, 35 millions; North Carolina, 14 millions; Ohio, 9 millions; Indiana, 4 millions; Illinois, Connecticut, and a few others in smaller proportions.

The production in 1848 was 218,909,000 lbs., which, valued at four cents per lb., would be worth nine million dollars. From persons largely interested in the tobacco trade, and well informed in relation thereto, I have gathered the following general statements:—