Three Centuries of Tobacco

[Contents:] Colonial Production – Record of the Census – Distinctive Types – Geographic Redistribution – Per Capita Production Increasing – Price Per Pound to Growers – Value of Crop – Value Per Acre – Tobacco as a World Crop – Area Devoted to Tobacco – Yield Per Acre – Exports of Domestic Tobacco – Exported Manufactured Tobacco - Exports Declining Relative to Population and Production – Chief Countries to Which Tobacco Is Exported – Principal Export Countries – Tobacco Imports – Now Mainly Unmanufactured – Tobacco Imports in the World’s Trade – National Net Surplus of Tobacco – Philippine Islands and Porto Rico – Large Yearly Carry-Over of Tobacco – Analysis of Consumption – Great Gain of the Cigarette – Pounds of Tobacco Used – Per Capita Consumption – Fraction of the Crop Used – Historic Course of Import Duties – Internal Revenue Rates – Income of the Government from Tobacco – Magnitude of the Tobacco-Manufacturing Industry.