The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1879-08-27

average crop. Notwithstanding the
shortage of the rs crop, prices continued
to drag in all the markets at prices
ruinous To the country, but the panic
pressing tighter and tighter forced farm
ers to resort to the cultivation of tobacco,
and nothing but the want of n sufficient
season prevented very near the setting of
I the usual acreage, and in order to get a
correct and true feeling of the people
in regard to what they expected to get
the present year. ] noted from about
thirty different persons, or tobacco
| growers, the acreage cultivated in ~,
! rs, andwhat they expected to cultivate
the present year. | found that i'm ~
Oh acres were cultivated, about } that
amount in rs, and the intention was to
cultivate 81 acres present year; but the
/ long-contiuned cool weather, and some
/ little interference with the bug, checked
/ the growth of the young plant, so much
so that farmers Were prevented from
awaiting themselves of the advantage of
/ the early seasons o. great extent.
/ The1gt fortunate ,Or the farmer, 80 tar
rs tobacco is concerned, we had no set
| ing season from about the first to the
2Sth of June, the consequence of which
/ there was a considerable lifting of prices
towards the last of the month, which
was Il new stimulent and gave new i'm
pulse to the setting of II great amount
otherwise would not have been set.
/ What will be the result of the late set
/ ting is left to prediction. Judging from
the past we will have unmistablya very
large amount of dark, short tobacco and
deficient i'm body. If that be the case
we may expect Il little stiflening of
prices yet Oh all good tObaccos, and the
inferior will share IL little i'm the advance.
Now, taking into consideration the
scarcity of money and the low prices on
everything produced, and The low wages
allowed to the hired labor, what cOnclu-
sion would we naturally come to in
regard to the prospects of future prices?
Ii would be simply this: that tobacco
will pay better than anything else; and
the most speedy relief from Il financial
distress would be resort to its prOduc-
ton, and the consequence will be an eX-
cessive crop for 1850 will be in the hands
Of growers awaiting dragging market
should the season be good. To expect
as low market as we have experienced
in the past is erroneous however good
the season may be for the next crop.
What prices will be in the future 10 one
Cdi tclI We dit itit W yuuSc iiOHl 'hc
condition of things, the low ebb to
which everything has been forced, that
meets the necessary demands of the
people, and the stringency of the times,
and leave the rest to prophecy. But we
are inclined to believe that the prices of
all good tobacco will be very remunera-
tive and quite satisfactory, but not so
; high rs some are inclined to think, and
in my opinion the early sales i'm price
will be II little fuller than late in the
season, rs there will be an early demand
to meet the necessary requirements, and
speculation in the face of an excessive
crop, which we are forced to expect in
the regular march of things will be of
Il feeling character. Whether or not |
am correct in my views, time alone can
tell. T.. J. II.