Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-31
lancaster fntelIigerlrer.
TUESDAY EVENING, AUG. 81, 1890.
"The Weed. I"
The Local Tobacco Ira

ssThe Weed"
The Local Tobacco Trade.
Much diversity of opinion exists among
men who are supposed to know, as to what
will probably be the total yield of the to-
bacco crop Of 1880 in this county and state.
The estimate made by five packers and
printed in Saturdays INTELLIGENCER, is
much criticised by other packers who re-
gard it as too high. Their observation and
information from different sections lead
them to believe that the crop Of this county
will scarcely exceed 80, 600 cases. They say
fine tobacco in the county, there is much
more that is small, SO small that it will not
average two cases to the acre. The late
tobacco has not improved as it was hoped
it would. Much of it is stinted and under
the most favorable conditions will not
make largo leaves, and under unfavorable
conditions will yield little or nothing. They
state that the "30, 900 cases in York" are
good deal like Fallstaff7s "seven men in
buckram''-they are not there-and it will
bother York to show moro than IL, 600
cases. Clinton county is also er-estimated
by Onc-half, SO is Lebanon, Chester and the
counties that grow smaller quantities. On
the whole the critics think the yield of the
state will not bc more than 100, 900 cases,
and may be less.
We give tho above opinions for what
they arc worth. Our own advices from
various sections arc to the effect that the
earlier promise of the season is not on the
whole being realized. The increased acre
age is not yielding corresponding in
creased weight. This is accounted for by
excessive drouths, excessive rain, sudden
changes Of temperature, deprcdatiOns by
cut-wOrms, green-wOrms, grass-hoppers
and llcas, and other unfortunate circum-
stances. The tobacco that is good, is cery
good, and will bring fully as high prices as
the best of 1878, but it is agreed on all hands
that there is not SO large a proportion of it.
The damage by hail over which SO great
a cry was made by some of our contempO-
rarics turns out to have been comparatively
light. Messrs. Bausman & Burns, the in
sur:,nce agents, have been called upon to
pay for ten acres only thus destroyed. of
course there was a good deal destroyed
that was not insured, but the aggregate is
not heavy.
All the buyers who were in our market
last year arc again on hand, and half a
dozen new ones arc added to the list. AS
yet they arc not buying heavily, but
1880. OF the former one half has perhaps
bccn inspected, and of tho latter, about
one half cut off. During tho past week
200 or 800 cases of 1879 were sold. To
show that the crop turns out better than
the buyers expected, it may be stated that
several packers who sold their packings
arc here trying to buy other packings at
higher figures. One heavy manufacturing
firm, which had intended to take only 300
cases, is making arrangements to take
1,2OO.
As to the supposed wearing out of farm
lands devoted to tobacco, here is an in.
stance in point to disprOve it. Jacob l..
Frey last fall sOwed in wheat an acre OF
land that had been for several years con-
secutivcly planted in tobacco. The yield
OF wheat from this acre was "A bushels
and two pounds. Pretty good for sworn
Out' land. The wheat was of the "Han.
cock" Fultz variety, and that may be ono
reason why it stands ut the head of the
column; but the fact appears to bc that the
heavy manuring and constant cultivation
and pulverizatiOn Of land planted in TO-
bacco, fits it peculiarly for the growth OF
wheat.
Following arc the sales Of seed leaf to-
bacco reported byJ. S. Gans's Son & Co.,
tobacco brokers, 81 and SG Wall street,
New York, for the week ending August
30: 125 cases 1878 New England, 13 tC
15c; $50 cases 1879 New England, 25c
275 cases New England UIavana seed)
D. t. $50 cases 1878 Pennsylvania, 12 to
2Oc: 1,O57 cases 1879 Pennsylvania II to
21Ic; 125 cases 1873 Ohio, 12 to 13c 1Oj
cases 1879 Ohio, y to 12c; IS cases 1878
Wisconsin, 8 to &c. Total, 9, 1O2 cases.