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 England, 15,000 hhds. to France, 20,000 hhds. to Holland, 25,000 hhds.  Germany, and about 22,000 hhds. to other countries.  The whole crop for 1845 was put down at 187,422,000 lbs.  In 1839, it was ascertained that one and a half million persons were engaged in the cultivation and manufacture of tobacco in the United States, one million of whom were so occupied in the States of Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri.  In the city of New York the consumption of cigars is computed at 10,000 dollars a day, a sum greater than that which the inhabitants pay for their daily bread; and in the whole country the annual consumption of tobacco is estimated at 120 million pounds, being 7 lbs. for every man, woman, and child, at an annual cost to the consumers of 20 million dollars (more than four million pounds sterling).

It is estimated that the manufacture of tobacco in the United States is increasing at the rate of 2,000 hhds. per annum.

hhds. 
The quantity manufactured in 1851, was stated at 55,000
Exportations for the year estimated at 120,000
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175,000

The production for 1852 is supposed to be as follows:—­

hhds. 
Virginia 27,000
Maryland 33,000
Western States, including frosted 65,000
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Total production 125,000
Deficiency in the year’s crop 50,000

The quantity produced in the United States, in 1847, was 220,164,000 lbs., worth, at 5 cents per lb., nearly 11 million dollars (more than two million sterling).  The principal producing States were—­Kentucky, 65 million lbs.; Virginia, 50 millions; Tennessee, 35 millions; North Carolina, 14 millions; Ohio, 9 millions; Indiana, 4 millions; Illinois, Connecticut, and a few others in smaller proportions.

The production in 1848 was 218,909,000 lbs., which, valued at four cents per lb., would be worth nine million dollars.  From persons largely interested in the tobacco trade, and well informed in relation thereto, I have gathered the following general statements:—­