Show tobacco ig raised lancaster county it appears still stands at the head of all the tobacco growing counties in the united states with her pounds grown in the season of 1889 four other counties christian and henderson in kentucky dane in wisconsin and pittsylvania Pitt sylvania county in virginia grow over each there are seventeen other counties that grow from to pounds each lancaster product in 1889 as all know was soldat exceedingly low prices about the lehv cit in our history and even then produced the growers the nearest approach to this by any other m county was by hartford county conn the product of lancaster county in fact fetched more money than that of the entire state of connecticut or of wisconsin or of new york and massachusetts combined philadelphia ledger |