Excerpt from Annual Report on Tobacco Statistics, 1948 The Annual Report on Tobacco Statistics is a compilation of the most frequently used statistics relating to tobacco. Most of the data in this issue cover only the last 5 years. Data covering a longer period may be found in the Annual Report on Tobacco Statistics for 1947. Tobacco is a very important commodity from the standpoint of Agri culture, business, and as a source of revenue for Federal, State, and local governments. Among the field crops, tobacco production ranked fourth in value in 1947 and third in 1946. Growers received over 900 million dollars for the 1947 crop. Total taxes collected from tobacco during the 1947-48 fiscal year exceeded million dollars. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.