Three Centuries of Tobacco

George K. Holmes

No 374793, USDA Miscellaneous from United States Department of Agriculture

Abstract: [Contents:] Colonial Production – Record of the Census – Distinctive Types – Geographic Redistribution – Per Capita Production Increasing – Price Per Pound to Growers – Value of Crop – Value Per Acre – Tobacco as a World Crop – Area Devoted to Tobacco – Yield Per Acre – Exports of Domestic Tobacco – Exported Manufactured Tobacco - Exports Declining Relative to Population and Production – Chief Countries to Which Tobacco Is Exported – Principal Export Countries – Tobacco Imports – Now Mainly Unmanufactured – Tobacco Imports in the World’s Trade – National Net Surplus of Tobacco – Philippine Islands and Porto Rico – Large Yearly Carry-Over of Tobacco – Analysis of Consumption – Great Gain of the Cigarette – Pounds of Tobacco Used – Per Capita Consumption – Fraction of the Crop Used – Historic Course of Import Duties – Internal Revenue Rates – Income of the Government from Tobacco – Magnitude of the Tobacco-Manufacturing Industry.

Keywords: Crop Production/Industries; International Relations/Trade; Production Economics; Productivity Analysis; Public Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26
Date: 1920
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.374793

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