Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1893 — Our Large Tobacco Growth. [ARTICLE]

Our Large Tobacco Growth.

Tobacco was discovered in 1492. In 1892 the United States raised 565,755,000 pounds on 757,526 acres of ground. In 1884 the world’s production was 768,000 tons o?i 2,029,000 acres. In 1892 there were manufactured in this cr>nntry 2,877,779,440 cigarettes.