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Show TOBACCO ACREAGE IS SMALL Area Occupied by Crop Is Very Insignificant, Insig-nificant, Being 1,801,200 Acres in 1919. Since the estimate of 216,400 harvested har-vested acres of tobacco In the United States made by the bureau of crop estimates, es-timates, United States department of agriculture, for 1 803, the area has irregularly ir-regularly increased to 1,647,000 acres n 191S and 1.001,200 acres in 1919, with Intermediate census acreages "rom 1S79 to 3900. Tobacco is one of the "principal" Tops, and is rated as one of considerable consid-erable importance from a national oint of view, and of high Importance within the limits of some of the states, md yet the area occupied by it is a .ery insignificant .fraction of farm iind of crop area. The census for 1909 I found 1.294,911 acres devoted to to- bacco, and this area was 0.41 per cent of the total crop area and 0.15 per cent of the farm area. |