2155|
1846| 5,922|26,785|23,788| 8,919| 2155| 2386| 2456| 2085|
1847| 8,919|21,743|20,681| 9,981| 2085| 911| 2079| 917|
1848| 9,981|12,084| 9,935|12,130| 917| 847| 1054| 710|
1849|12,130|19,285|22,112| 9,303| 710| 1173| 1734| 149|
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|          KENTUCKY         |         STEMS         |
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|      |      |      | S    |     |     |     | S   |
| S    |      |      | t    | S   |     |     | t   |
| t    |      |      | o  D | t   |     |     | o D |
| o  J |  I   |      | c  e | o J |  I  |     | c e |
| c  a |  m   |      | k  c | c a |  m  |     | k c |
| k  n |  p   |  S   |    e | k n |  p  |  S  |   e |
Y |    u |  o   |  a   | l  m |   u |  o  |  a  | l m |
e | 1  a |  r   |  l   | a  b | 1 a |  r  |  l  | a b |
a | s  r |  t   |  e   | s  e | s r |  t  |  e  | s e |
r | t  y |  s   |  s   | t  r | t y |  s  |  s  | t r |
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1840|   181| 3,803| 3,699|   285| 2853| 3362| 4564| 1651|
1841|   285| 5,206| 4,941|   550| 1651| 7085| 7054| 1682|
1842|   550| 9,407| 8,939|  1018| 1682| 4151| 5386|  447|
1843|  1018| 7,485| 6,441|  2062|  447| 3969| 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—­