“We sum up the whole matter by repeating: “1. That overproduction, the production at all, of _low_ grade tobacco is the chief cause of the present extremely low price of the entire commodity. “2. That the planters of the United States have the remedy in their own hands; that remedy being the reduction of area, this reduction to result, from the employment of the means here suggested, in increased crops; and, paradoxical as it may seem, these increased crops to bring greatly enhanced values. “The whole world wants good tobacco, and will pay well for it. Scarcely a people on earth seeks poor tobacco or will buy it at any price. “In a word, then, one acre must be made to yield what it has hitherto taken two or three acres to produce; and this double or treble quantity must be made (as, indeed, under good management it could not fail to be) immeasurably superior in quality to that now grown on the greater number of acres. Either this or the abandonment of the crop altogether—one or the other.” The exports from Baltimore were 46,239 hogsheads in 1882, 43,620 in 1883, 43,192 in 1884. The State of New York, in 1883, had 5440 acres under tobacco, producing 9,068,789 lb., value 1,178,943 dollars; and Connecticut, 8145 acres, 9,576,824 lb., 1,292,871 dollars. The production of Minnesota was 65,089 lb. in 1879, 48,437 lb. in 1880, 79,631 lb. in 1881, 62,859 lb. in 1882, 14,744 lb. in 1883. _Venezuela._—The exports from Ciudad Bolivar were, in 1884, 1318 _kilo._, value 1037 _bolivares_, to the British West Indies; 9618 _kilo._, 6691 _bolivares_, to the United States; 275,329 _kilo._, 192,188 _bolivares_, to Germany. The exports of tobacco from this port in decades have been:—7,650,656 lb. in 1850–59; 2,134,711 in 1860–69; 3,170,812 in 1870–79.