Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-27
TOBACCO.

TOBACCO.
Tho New York Market Last Wee!s-Trnde
Notes.
U. S. Tobacco Journal
The leaf market has never been charac-
terized by any activity during Christmas
and New Year weeks, and the week about
to close has been no exception. Sales of
any significance have not been reported,
and even of the few small immediate
supply transactions, very little has been
heard. The late extensive failures III the
trade have also tended to make our mar
ket dull
Those who have bought 80 Connecticut
and New York state are seemingly in high
glee over their bargains. They claim that
in the 80 Pennsylvania, Ohio and Wiscon-
sin there is so little good stock that manu-
facturers will be compelled to fall back
upon their stock-viz., the 80 COn:ccti-
cut and New York state. TO some extent
they are justified in making this claim
but We fear that all the better grades Of
the Ohio. Pennsylvania and Wisconsin
will he offered under the name Of 80 Con
necticut and New York state and as all
the crops aggregate nearly 2'5. 600 cases,
and as the chances for export during the
next year arc very slim. We can but repeat
that to pay high prices for new crops, cs-
pecially the 80 Pennsylvania, will be an
extra hazardous investment.
The transactions of the week may bc
summarized us follows
Pennsylvania-Crop 10: $50 cases !;
wrappers, 81! to 45 cents; running nc
dunn, 1G cents; fine, 19! cents; filters, Z
to s cents.
Conncct;cut-Crop '76: $50 cases most
ly medium wrappers at 27t to S5 cents
.5 cases extra fine wrappers at 4G cents.
Ohio-CrOp 70: IS cases running 10
cents.
State and Wisconsin-Crop 20. No
sales reported.
IIavana-Market and prices unchanged.
Sales about 80 bales.
Gans's Report.
Sales of seed leaf tobacco, reported by
j. S. Gans's Son & Co., tobacco brokers,
| Nos. 81 and S6 Wall street, New York,
for the week ending December p. 1889
With the approaching holidays business
has rs usual s!ackened off; 800 cases 1879,
Pennsylvania filters, 7c.; assorted, 10000.
wrappers, 1S(a,40c.; $50 cases 1879, New
|
Housatonic p. t.; 800 eases 1870, Ohio,
SM125c.; 100 eases suntlries, 9g12c.; total,
1850 case.
! NSMito Veins IN Tobacco.
1T :. A." in American Cultivator.
Among the many evils which atllict the
tobacco crop, white veins arc the most sc,
rious and damaging. A veiny leaf makes
an unsiGhtly wrapper, causing the cigal
maker to reject it even il satisfactory in
other respects. A leaf that cures with
white veins is generally defective in Other
respects. 1t is often thick, lcathery and
greasy, burning badly. In short, for 4
cigar leaf it is worthless and every tobacco
grower should be careful to avoid pro:luc-
ing such IN article.
What produces white veins is question
often asked, but seldom, think correctly
answered. Having investigated this sub
.ject carefully for many years, have come
to the following conclusion White veins
are not the result Of any peculiar condi
tions in the curing process. There arc
many persons who suppose that a dry curt
will produce white veins, and this wa:
probably the basis Of the opinion, held by
many packers, that the 1880 crop woult
be veiny, from the fact that VIC have hat
q comparatively dry season for curing it
But the 1880 crop has fewer white veins
than any that has been raised in the vale,
for many years. There arc growers whc
never have white veins in their crops, n'
matter what the curing season is, while
neighboriny cultivators will often and Il:
4 rule have veiny crops, although curet
under similar conditions with the NOR,
fortunate growers.
White veins arc caused by an imperfect
growth of the plant and III immature leaf.
The causes Of these imper;cctions Nv.
many. A lack Of proper fertilizers is thu
starting point Of all these evils. Late
setting, high topping and careless cultiva
tion will almost certainly result in white
veins, OF in fact any one Of the abov,
named causes will be likely to proiuc,
this unr:lvorablc result. The growers
should use fertilizers that contain all the
elements of plant food required by the to
bacco crop. combined in the right proper
tions and in such forms that they can b.
readily taken up by the plants. Set plant:
early, say not l.tcr than the middle o
June, cultivate carefully, top low, kecl
the suckers OFF and allow the crop to se
ripe before cutting. White veins viii
then be things of the past.
The reasons why the 1890 crop is gcncr
ally SO free from white veins are that il
has had Il more intelligent cultlNatio,
than those Of former years, and again tl,t
season has been remarkably fine one fo
growing tobacco. In short most of til.
crop was well ripencd.
Trade Notes.
While duriE. October only one New
York city internal revenue distric. showet
Il fallin. Off in receipts from cigars { 4 fall
ing off Of So, 115.15 as compared with Sep
tcmber, both districts show :. decrease tol
last month rs compared with October .
$50, 1854, but compared with November
1879, an increase of SAG ,90S.1j.
The cigar manufacturers of Chicago arr
coming out strongly fora reduction Of til.
cigar tax to s..
Seedlings have greatly improved all Ovel
the Vuc!ta Abajo, Cuba, under the bene
iicent influence OF the late rains. Accord!
ing to the severa! private reports whicl
have been sent us, the Havana leaf is SC
abundant and its quality SO superior, thai
we must go some eight or ten years back
to find another crop comparable to this.
SHOOTING AT COATESyILLE.
Lancaster County Nan's lltflo Pistol