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Show Enormous Production of Tobacco Washington. More than 150,000,-000 150,000,-000 pounds of cigar tobacco and near ly four times that quantity of the other types of tobacco was grown In the United States in 190S, according to a bulletin issued by the department of agriculture. Kentucky leads all the states In tobacco growing, producing produc-ing more than one-third of the crop of the country. While some tobacco Is produced in almost every state, less than 1 per cent of this country's crop is grown west of the Mississippi river. |