. Bulletin. 1901-13. Agriculture; Agriculture. 42 TOBACCO MARKETING IN THE UNITED STATES. 188G and 1888 were followed by several years of depression in the production of dark tobacco, and the receipts at Clarksville have since averaged about 20,000 to 30,000 hogsheads yearl5\ Although the Clarksville market has fallen considerably behind both Louisville and Cincinnati since the war in the gross quantity of tobacco handled, it has, nevertheless, easily retained its preeminence as the largest and most important distinctively dark-tobacco market in the coun- tr}^, generally outranking by 10,000 t
. Bulletin. 1901-13. Agriculture; Agriculture. 42 TOBACCO MARKETING IN THE UNITED STATES. 188G and 1888 were followed by several years of depression in the production of dark tobacco, and the receipts at Clarksville have since averaged about 20,000 to 30,000 hogsheads yearl5\ Although the Clarksville market has fallen considerably behind both Louisville and Cincinnati since the war in the gross quantity of tobacco handled, it has, nevertheless, easily retained its preeminence as the largest and most important distinctively dark-tobacco market in the coun- tr}^, generally outranking by 10,000 to 15,000 hogsheads any other dark-tobacco market of the country. Among the other six distinctively dark-tobacco auction break and inspection markets which have been in operation in the West since. Fig. :i.—^Inteiior of a cif?ar-tobacoo auction warehouse, Cincinnati, Ohio, before a sale. The official sample on which the sale is made lies on the top of each case. the Civil War, St. Louis was as important as any, even including Clarksville, up to about 1879, and the receipts ran from about 15,000 to 20,000 hogsheads yearly. The largest crop of tobacco ever raised in Missouri was in 1870, when the crop was 43,000,000 pounds. Because of the heavy production at this period of dark tobacco of a type similar to that produced in Missouri, together with the rapid inroads which Burley was nudving in competition with tlie dark western manufacturing type and the consequent very low prices for dark tobacco, the production in Missouri rapidly declined until, in 187i>, only three years later, the crop was only 12,015,()57 pounds, and a portion of that had boon cliangod to Burley. The receipts of St. Louis wore drawn j^rincipally from the Missouri territory, and its 2GS. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original U
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