Show h I h 0 Ji JiE CE E TELl RA l J N t J MANY FARMERS IN U. U 1 5 S 1 GRO GROW TOBACCO WASHINGTON W. June 2 Dy By D ByA-D A. A IA P. P A A comprehensive of the f American merican t acre u half bil lion-dollar lion tobacco Industry Is contained contained con COT In the 1922 yearbook of or the department of agriculture which has Ins just come com from the press Although the tobacco crop roles coVen only about one half of 1 per cent of or ortho tho the acreage devoted to all alt crops In Inthis Inthis Inthis this count country it has hu a high value vAtu to the tho acre and requires a great deal of or labor both In the growing and manufacture Most of the crop Is grown in a fe Kentucky North Carolina and Virginia being the leaders but some lome tobacco is ts grown In two forty states statu The three named produce nearly nearl two two- thirds of or the output n while Kentucky len Ken tucky alone produces a third of or orthe the total In 1919 the latest st year in which the figures are complete tobacco was waa grown rown on nearly farms North Carolina stood first In value alue of the crop Lancaster count county Pa Ta was the leading county in acreage and production and Hartford county count coun coun- t ty Conn was second There were tobacco manufacturing establishments establishments employing persons per sons The Internal revenue re from to to to- bacco amounted to nearly I. yearly The Tho work of the agriculture dEpartment department department de de- has had an Important In Influence Influence influence In- In fluence in Improvement nt of the in- in and In the last twenty five years jears because of new methods methode better better bet bet- ter varieties and greater Are use of or fertilizers fertilizers fer fer- the yield from each acre has been Increased The j growing rolnA of or cigar under shade which has become extensive in Connecticut and Flot Ida has made It possible to produce a high grade leaf which formerly was WI imported Th The crop advances little Into new territories because each t type pe of tobacco Is la closely limited to certain localities on account of ot soil loll and climatic conditions con con- The Tho outstanding feature of th the I growth ro f t consumption In the last quarter century has been the great at increase in tho the use Ule of machine made machine made i 1 From 1895 to the present time the manufacture of ot I has risen from to 60 O o a y year r. r |