Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-10

pennsylvania. Ihe sales OF the past week
may be summed up as follows: Pennsyl-
vania crop 70: 600 cases wrappers, "a to
Az cents good running, II to 20 cents !;
low II to IA cents filters to cents.
Connecticut crop 70: 45O cases, COM
prising HOusatOnic and other leaf; wrap
pers, 25 to 45 cents; seconds, IL cents :;
filters, sound, q to 8 cents.
State : 12O cases running, ii cents.
Ohio Crop 10: 200 cases running
(bOught mostly by manufacturers, y to
10 cents.
Wisconsin: IA cases Havana seed, 1G
cents.
Havana Very active. The demand quite
lively, sales numbering 800 bales. Prices
for 70 filters range from 81 to s1.1O; for
fine, s1.25 and higher are being paid.
Gans's Report.
Sales Of seed leaf tobacco. reported by
J. s. Gans's Son & Co., tobacco brokers,
Nos. 81 and SO Wall street, New York,
for the week ending January 10, 1881 ::
500 cases 1879 Pennsylvania, assorted,
12G18c.; wrappers, 1S@4Oc.; 1S0 cases
1o79 New England, seconds and wrappers,
1@374c.; 1G4 cases 1879 state. 1O(d 15c. !;
200 cases 1879 Ohio, S(a 13c.; total, 1,O44
cases.
Trade Notes.
The strike Of the cigarmakers Of herbs
4 Spiess has virtually collapsed. The
hOusewOrlers of the firm did not partici-
pate in the strike, although it was so re-
ported. The strikers are now applying to
the firm in body for work.
A big cigar manufacturer intcrvied by
the journal says the business in New
York last year paid only 3 per cent. owing
to the ''cutting" and jealOusies of those
engaged in it.
64i, 1sO, 900 cigars and 2s5, 1G4, ,94s ciga-
rettes were made in New York city in
1SS0-11O, $50, 900 cigars and 100, ,2O6, III
cigarettes more than in 1879.
Among the sales Of last week reported
by the Leaf are the following lots Of Penn
sylvania 1879 crop: Lichenstein Bros,
so cases Resin & Sons, 100 cases ii.
Schubart & Co., 100 cases; E. Hoffman &
Son, 100 cases {; G. H. Spitzner & Son, 100
cases A. S. ROsenbaum & Co., 100 cases !;
E. & G.. Friend 200 cases.
The crop Of 1880.
The agricultural department has issued
the following report relative to the
80 tobacco crop of the United States
I'VE estimate the crop Of the entire cOun-
try to be 81, ,972, TT pounds, against 391,-
279. $50 pounds in 1879, decline Of about
4S, 300, 900 pounds. The seed leaf growing
states from Massachusetts, to Pennsylvania
have increased their acreage II to Is per
cent. over last year, the average yield
for all being about the same, while Penn
sylvania, the most important of these as a
grower of seed leaf, reports 1S per cent. Of
increase in acreage with an average falling
off in yield of about $50 pounds per acre,
making her crop about 81, 900, 600 pounds
as against, say, q, 600, 600 last year.
Tobacco suems and Refuse.
l have found that there is no better fer
tilizer for any and all purposes than to.
baccO refuse. l have used it for corn, pO-
tatoes, tobacco, grain, grass, trees, straw
berries, &C., and found that it increased
healthy growth and prOductiveness. There
is no better way OF using this fertilizer
than to apply it without the admixture Of
any other matter, either as a top
dressing, plOwed down, or in the hill
or drill for hoed crops. The coarse
stalks must be cut to short lengths.
which can be done at leisure during the
winter. A double handful Of stalks.
four to six inches long, is sufficient for a
hill of corn or potatoes, or even tobacco,
"uCIC OIACA dAO pIOWVSA uOWns
Tobacco growers in the Connecticut river
valley purchase large quantities Of the leaf
stems from tobacco manufacturers, and
apply for tobacco, broadcasting and plOw-
ing under, some putting it in the drill as
the plants are set, using this refuse without
any other manure for the crop, and they
grow as good crops as if fertilized with sta
ble manure. Think it hardly good policy
to raise moro than one crop on the same
ground. If the leaf stems are cOarsely
cut with hay cutter or .Other machine,
they will not trouble as much as spreading
in the drill. In blowing down they must
be spread evenly, and then one hand is
needed to haul them into the burrows az
the ground is plowcd, if the stems are not
cut. At the second plOwing, just before
transplanting, these stems have 80 far de-
cayed us to cause no trouble in the plOw-
ing. The quantity per acre used varies
from 200 or 1900 pounds to 1000 or
more pounds; but where put in the hill Or
drill, care should be used not to put in too
much, or it will burn and kill the plants
set over it. The coarse tobacco stalks
may be spread ON grass ground, right after
being stripped, and gathered again before
the grass has grown to interfere, and will
serve the purpose Of a costly fertilizer in
ch case these partly-spent stalks may
cut in short lengths and compostcd, or
they may be used to plOw down, and will
aid in fertilizing the soil. They should
not be burned. as is sometimes the case,
as one can see by their burning that there
is considerable nitre in them.-W H.
White.
Local Tobacco Market.
There has been very little doing in to-
bacco during the past week. The weather
has been unfit for stripping or handling,
and the severity of the weather has been
such as to deter buyers from riding
the county, even if the tobacco
was in good condition. The sleigh
ing in the city and along the principal
has been good, but many of the
country roads and farm lanes are badly
blOckaded with snow, and this is another
reason why buyers have been fighting shy
of the tobacco sheds. Besides, they say,
the crop is so badly damaged by the flea
that they don't want it but it is very ev-
dent that they do want all of it that is
good, and are willing to pay fair prices for
t. The ea-bitten portion of it will, of
course lie on the farmers hands until he
s willing to part with it at low figures.
Not more than fifty cases of old tobacco |
we're sold last week-all on private terms,