p. 679 | Increase of the Tobacco Crop by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 13, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 43.

Increase of the Tobacco Crop.

By Editor

THE following, which we copy from a Springfield, Ill., paper, shows that there is great need of a tobacco reformation: “The tobacco crop of this country, which in 1864 was but 197,000,000 pounds, promises in 1884 to be between 600,000,000 and 700,000,000 pounds, or more than three times that of twenty years ago. The acreage, which in 1864 was 239,826, has jumped up to nearly 700,000; and the value of the crop, which in 1864 was $30,000,000, will probably reach $50,000,000 in 1884. Surely its cultivation has become a great and mighty business on the earth, when nearly 1,000,000 of acres in this country are devoted to it.