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TOBACCO OFFSETS BOLL WEEVIL LOS! FARMERS IX PEE DEE GET GOO RETL RNS FROM GROWING OF WEED. Eflrmt-rs, particularly of the Pe section of South Carolina, hav in tobacco an effective weapon wit which to beat down the tide of ecc nomic losses incident to the invasio of the boll weevil. Last year returns from the cro reached the unprecedented figures o nearly $20,000,000. The exact figure were $19,311,497.86. The highest pre vious figure was in 1917 when th returns amounted to $11,794,431.78. Growers last year in receiving ap proximately $20,000,000 for their to bacco got nearly one-fifth theamoun paid for the cotton crop. October's figures this year are no yet available, but during the month of July, August, and September o this year, growers were paid $18,409, 336.74. Complete figures will doubt less carry the returns for the 191! crop slightly in excess of last year's Considerable agitatio# is being man ifested in the lower section of th< state, already invaded by the bol weevil, for the cultivation of tabocc< as a substitute crop. During th< three months for which reports have already been received for 1919 crop 81,128,947, pounds have been sold The following tables gives the tota volume for the crop the last tei years: Pounds. Amount Average Year. Sold. Paid Price Paid 1910 18,802375 $ 1,604,685.44 $ 8.51 1911 11,101,066 1,352,462.84 12.11 1912 24,337,912 2,653,443.68 10.9< 1913 33,299,561 4,584339.51 13.71 1914 39,478,421 3,881,233.54 9.81 1915 37,924,396 2,760,982.18 7.21 1916 20,079.903 2,813,448.87 14.1] 1917 51,080,083 11,794,431.78 24.01 1918 62,173,631 19,311,497.86 31.01 1919 81,128,947 18,409,336.74 21.41 Tobacco glowing has been largeb confiined to Darlington. Marion Flor ence, Dillon, Clarendon, Sumter am Williamsburg. But with the invasioi of the bolll weevil imminent in j large portion of South Carolina, th< tobacco growing area will likely b< largely extended. The annual repor of the state department of agricul ture for 1918 gives the following syn opsis of the history of tobacco grow ing in South Carolina: "The department, under the law I ^ TWF 1920 Qualf const lished stai given to tt m of superioi I | Upon sue] | has the 19: . f . An inspec * and refine I purchaser, I I * Mod " Mod * Mod 4 I Mod " Mod I Mod I I ???? began to keep records of the tobacco 'crop in 1909. That year very nearly ^ 28,000,000 pounds of tobacco were t raised, but the price was low, and it brought but little over two and a Jguarter million dollars. The two fol^ lowing years the crop decreased very considerably in both volume and in amount of money produced. Then for four years consecutively the volume ,e of the crop steadily increased, until ptthe maximum was reached in 1914. j1 the year the war broke out. The preceding year a smaller crop had sold n at 13.77 cents per pound, bringing to 'the farmers $4,584,000 the greatest p amount ever received from the tobacI co crop in this state. In 1914 the s prices fell, and in 1915, while people J still planted tobacco, and raised a c big crop, the amount received from I it was only $2,765,372, the price hav_ | ing fallen to the lowest figure record_ ed since 1909, 7.02 cents per pound. t "The 1915 tobacco crop very nearly discouraged the planting in this t state. The average price had dropped s j from about 11 cents to 7.28 and in f ! 1916 the acreage was cut nearly half. . j There was a considerable increase in . price in that year and there was an ^ anomalous situation. 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