The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-04-21
IFrom the New York Tobacco News.] =,
warning 10 TobaecO.planters.

warming to TObaecO.Planterss; ,
The following communication comes from
one well qualified. to write on such sue
iect. and we hope it Will receive every con
alteration from tobacco. raisers, VINO are
most interested in tbe matter: '."'9
sf-- GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, March Atb.
Editor of the 1obacco Ne,cs: ... :. II.
The planting season Is again at hand, md
from this time forward this years crop will
no watched with more than usual anxiety
by all who are interested in tobacco.
THE somew hat brisk reaction which has
for time prevailed in your markets VIII
doubtless have the tendency to induce
farmers TO plant more tobacco than they re-
Gently intended. and think. under present
circumstances, there is ample excuse for
the humblest member OF the trade lifting
up his voice OF warning against such action.
In this country we are. beginning to look
with something like dismay upon The gigan-
tic crops which your planters raise, and the
monster imports sent US by your shippers.
The United Kingdom is your largest Gus
TONER. and surely it should be a warning to
YOUR side at the present tlpe 10 be told that
we have three years. supply in our ware
houses. In "the good old days" when to-
bacco was cultivated with care, and when
only good and fine found a market. large
crop generally meant Il good one, and 1t was
welcomed; but now large crop means q
large amount OF rubbish. little medium,
still less good, and almost no fine. IL is q
amentable fact that in this age OF progress
the cultivation OF tobacco, in place OF show
ing Improvement, shows year by year re.
PROGRESSION. ..-
IN the $4,000 hogsheads OF American
tobacco now in the warehouses OF this
country there is only. very small proper
ton indeed which would have been ranked
among the medium OF twenty years ago,
and it would take q very smart and charlta-
bile man to pick out 1000 hogsheads OF what
would have ranked fine. The great bulk
OF the stock might as we'll he called any
thing but tobacco, and would exhaust vo-
cabulary Of disparaging epitncts to charac-
teriZc it. The :" hands" may be the bands
of tobacco, but the flavor is the flavor OF
cabbaoGs. ...,. 80 ~. ~.
1t is true it will all find market. 1t is
even in more powerful positiont than some
other sorts, for it can always make market
though Il. the cost Of the whole trade. The
low prices at which it is offered induces
manufacturers TO buy it. and ruiious COM
Dcttion among them is the result. The
consumer is perhaps the most direct suf-
fcrer, but sooner or later all are affected,
and the planters turn is in store for him.
Ii he will put all the ground he Can
under tobacco, and If be will let every
plant hang as it grows, and carry from his
fields every leaf whether 1t has the favor
OF tobacco or no, he will find 4 market for
it all. but he will find his purse lighter 10!
his trouble. ii, however, he will grow only
what he can attend TO with care. and limit
each plant to a certain number of leaves and
let the rest return TO the soil, then he will
find his purse will grow heavier, aud that
all others from himself downward to tho
consumer will be comparatively; happy
family. " 49,. =
It must be quite apparent to any one who
will consider the matter for moment that
If all the ground used in the cultivation OF
tobacco Is still put to the same purpose, and
il the same fashion Of cultivation is con-
tinued, tobacco fnuSttsoon ceitSe TO he the
most profitable crop your farmers can raise.
., There Is an erroneous impression which
appears to prevail to some extent on your
side-Viz., that American is the tobacco OF
the world. That it is not considered so; in
this country may be seen ut a glance at a
price-list, where. in the leaf. it figures at
the bottom. Even in strips it does not COM
pare well with the prices OF some other
growths unstemmed. And yet it might be
80. II American tobacco were The tobacco
Of twenty years ago the consumption OF
other growths would soon become that of
twenty years ago; but let not your ship
'pers think that our manufacturers prefer
hogshead Of dirty, dingy green refuse to
bale OF good Java, Japan, or several other
growths.
For this reason am not so much an adj
vocatc for reduced production us for i'm
proved cultivation. Let US have as much
colory and bright tobacco and as much sub
stantial dark as possible, and so long as the
clements remain tickle we are not likely TO
get overstockcd; but a continuation Of pre-
sent practice means nothing but labor lost
to all concerned.
While writing the above your issue Of the
Sth instant came 10 my hand, and l am glad
to see some paragraphs urging similar
views. An "cndorsation" from this side
may not lie out Of place. y. b.