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Excerpt from Tobacco in the United States: Production, Marketing, Manufacturing, Exports In colonial days, the only market for tobacco was, of course, the export trade. In the seventeenth century, the usual method of marketing was to con sign the tobacco, packed in hogsheads, to an English merchant, who sold it on a commission basis and supplied needed manufactured goods in return. This system proved generally unsatisfactory to the planter, both because of the delay involved in the transaction and the risk encountered in dealing with the often unscrupulous English merchants. During the course of the eighteenth cen tury, another method of marketing came into general use, in which the crop was sold at the farm to a local British agent, who maintained a store, where the planter might secure the manufactured items he needed. This system proved to be more satisfactory and became the most popular way of marketing. 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.

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