969| 3447| 969|
1844| 2062| 9,736| 9,569| 2229| 969| 4753| 5513| 209|
1845| 2269|11,439|10,328| 3340| 209| 5273| 4152| 1330|
1846| 3340| 5,028| 6,099| 2269| 1330| 6092| 4716| 2706|
1847| 2269| 3,816| 5,013| 1072| 2706| 6788| 8038| 1456|
1848| 1072| 4,448| 4,980| 540| 1456| 4912| 4473| 1895|
1849| 540| 4,620| 4,746| 414| 1895| 5188| 5083| 1000|
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_Culture and Statistics in the United States_.--Tobacco has been the
great staple of the States of Virginia and Maryland from their first
settlement. About the year 1642 it became a royal monopoly, and
afterwards, in order to encourage its growth in the colonies, and
thereby increase the revenue of the Crown, Parliament prohibited the
planting of it in England. The average quantity shipped from the North
American colonies to the parent country, for ten years preceding the
year 1709, was about twenty-nine millions of pounds. For some years
prior to the American revolution, about 85,000 hhds. were exported,
then valued at little more than four millions of dollars, and
constituting nearly one-third the value of all the exports of the
British North American colonies. From 1820 to 1830 tobacco constituted
about one-ninth in value of all the domestic exports of the United
States. It finds a market principally in Great Britain, France,
Holland, and the north of Europe.[55] The crop of tobacco produced in
the four principal States, was in--

1838. 1839.
hhds. hhds.
Virginia 26,000 45,000
Kentucky 27,000 35,000
Maryland 16,000 16,000
Ohio 3,000 4,000
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72,000 100,000

The whole crop of 1840 was 219,163,319 lbs., which, at the estimate
of 1,200 lbs. to the hhd., would be equal to 182,636 hhds., and at the
average price of that year, 81 dollars 5 cents. per hhd., would make
the value of the crop of the United States 14,802,647 dollars 80
cents. The average annual export for the ten years ending with 1840,
was 96,775 hhds. The actual exportation of 1840 was 119,484 hhds. The
principal exports are formed of the produce of Virginia, Kentucky,
Tennessee, Maryland, and North Carolina. The exports are chiefly to
the following countries--about 30,000 hhds. annually to Engla