Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-11-08
TOBACCO.
state of the New York Market.

State of the New York Market.
L. :. Tobacco journal!
In the first part of the week the election
excitement prevented any interest being
taken Ill anything else, and the other part
was characterized 10y supreme stiffness.
Nevertheless, there exists feeling of sat
isfaction on all sides. The packers of rs
Pennsylvania are evidently at last convinc
ed that no higher prices than heretofore
have been given can be obtained for that
stock. About 90 cents for fine running
lots, Is for medium and about 12 for low
are now the standard figures for it. Some
few are sanguine that the very fine lots
will bring still higher prices in tie spring.
when selections arc not so plenty The
disappointment that followed the great
expectations of the packers has been the
means of making them cautious this
year. They wisely keep away from the
50 Pennsylvania crop. and will and mus:
continue to do so till the growers there
are ready to accept very low figures.
Let the packers and growers remember
that the so Pennsylvania crop is, on the
whole, OF Indifferent growth, interspersed
with a large amount of flea. bitten tobacco,
which, though experienced cigar manu-
facturers make use of, is not as yaiuable
rs perfectly sound stock. But the most
important reason why low prices must
rule for this crop, is that it is an enormous
one, far greater than any of the precedin"
ones and too great to Ee disposed of foi
home consumption only.
1n.summing up the limited business OF
this week VIC note as prominent the good
demand for 20 Connecticut from manulac-
turerS. The sales OF this stock number
400 cases, ut 42 cents for selected wrap
pers. - to 81 cents for Tunping ana l.;
cents for seconds. Some 30 eases Of filters
sold ut = cents.
t;ans's Report.
Sales Of seed leaf tobacco reported by J..
s. Gans's Son & Co, tobacco brokers, Nos.
)! and Sc Wall street, New York, for the
week ending November 8, 1880:
1900 cases 1879 Pennsylvani:.assorted
lots, 110 zoe; wrappers, 1S0 35c $50 eases
1879 New England wrappers, 16(aJ2Ic :;
ZIG eases 1879 state flats, 12I.c; $50 eases
1879 Ohio, 1@12; $50 eases suntlrics, S(d
Zoe; total, 1890 eases.
The Locai TeraccO Trade
The local trade has been rather quiet
during the past week. owing to the ex-
citement among the politicians. but We hear
Of about 200 eases of good selections sold
for home consumption aud $50 eases fnr
export for Bremen, the latter awaiting the
sailing OF steamer for that port. The
prizes realized arc not 1ivcI
During the damp weather that has pre-
vailed good deal of the new crop has been
taken from the poles for stripping. In the
judgment of experienced growers a,u,
packers, tobacco should not be stripped
until the stems are entirely dried out.
Early stripping is said to- have been the
cause of most of the damage to the
crop OF - which at one time WAS feared
to be disastrOusly large, but which turned
out to be much less than was feared. r.,
letting the tobacco hang ON the poles until
the stem is thoroughly dry. the leaf will
cure OF better color and there will 10
much less liability OF damage. Except for
lots cut very early month later will he a
better tiEle to strip it than now. BY at
tempting to be first in the market, our
farmers may he working against their own
interests. The packers havin. been in
some instances 9 bitten in 1873 will be
more carefully in their examinations in
1880.
We see by the New England papers tha.
the growers in that section are bein" urged
to give unusual attention to the strippin.
and handling OF the crop of 80, SD Us to
keep it in the forefront of the market. The
Connecticut crop is q good one. it is said.
though little light in color 1t beilooycs
the Pennsylvania farmer to be equally
careful in preparing his goods for market,
that the high standard heretofore accord!
ed Pennsylvania tobacco may not be low
cred.
We learn that nearly all the G.e 1879
tobacco of Clinton county has already been
purchased, Lancaster packers securing :,
fair proportion OF it..