The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-01-08
The White Yurley." Again.

We End the following In the Monthly To-
baccO Circular Of Ncssrs. SAWYER, WAL
LACE d Co., Of New York, under date CT
the Sd instant
"CoId weather retards business ut Tie
western breaks as well as IN the country.
The receipts at Louisville and Cincinnati
consist principally OF Burley from Eastern
Kentucky, and sell readily at 2M3c. ABOVE
prices current a year ago, ana inc same
advance i paid for loose crops. Stemmers
have made a beginning, at about DC. on tue
Ohio, we presume for select crop, as we
understand common TO FAIR can De Dousht
nj 304c. In the GAINESVILLE district we hear
Of 5Ijic. paid by stemmcrs, ana az hieh aS
10. by country pliers. In Illinois some
purchases have been maze al 3gos' anu
ibis il SAID 10 be the range for dark coarse
Missouri, while IdS3 is paid Tor their BUR
lev crop. which constitutes abou: bali the
Weld of that State, and promises TO monopo-
Iize IL This year. The continued popularity
Of this Burley growth at steadily advancing
prjces 1.-THE average price OF last years
sales nj Cincinnati is 1874, year before
10Y is drawing general attention to its cnl-
tnre and Il seems quite probable that 1t will
largely displace other sorts. The demand
=
on two kinds, the extremes OF qualty-viz..
Tho Rur!ev for home use land in smaller
degree for export), and the dark SILKY
CIarksyjllc and western let for export,
notably TO the regies and north OF Europe.
The stocks Of these two varieties are SMALL
while the intermediate sorts grown along
the Ohio and lower Green rivers are i'll bur-
densome abundance. II would seem desiri-
ble therefore that the Burley should he sub
stituted for these intermediate and unDopu-
In. kinds. which can only be forced of at
nrice unremuneratiye TO the farmer aud de-
preciating the Others for which they arc taken
~ a substitute. We are not sure that IL
would be prudent to extend its growth iaf-
thor nj present, because the extension re-
commended would likely be sufficient TO
eouaize the prices OF both the popular va
rieties.
1--WE are still comparatively in the dark
as TO the quality OF the western crop put
regret to hear that il has suffered some IN
iury from frost, which will increase the
proportion of low grades.
.|The Virginia crop is represented as IN
ferior. particularly the dark heavy leal.
The prOduction of this sort i also small
LITTLE more than bali an averagc-whlle the
bright or yellow tobacco section Of that
STATE and North Carolina may turn out
nearly an average crop.
In conversation with us an old dealer in
Virginia tobaccos for export. especially 10
the continent, urged that If our people
would try faithfully to produce the ricn'
fat dark leaf Of old times there would be no
difficulty in placing it at good price that
-;-it 70 (,prn9nX-
he conferred with the toDacco'men there
about the standing of Virginia toblccos,
when they told him that nobody wanted
this tobacco now, not because western was
better but because 1t was regular in SIZE aud
quality, whereas Virginia had become 80
irregular as to require them to class 1t as a
"pondescrIpt." He further urged that Ill
the ClsrksyiIle (Tennessee) district they
would probably this year 60 largely into the
"White Burley," thus destroying for the
time VirginIa's chief competitor on dark
heavy tobaccos in Europe, and that there
fore now was the tine TO do our very best
in bringing back the ancient type Of heavy
Virginia tobacco.
1t is due to our friends in the country
that we should present to them all sides OF
the question; but we nevertheless think
that the effort should be made, in an expert
mental way, throughout our dark-tobacco
region, by the planters in general to pro-
duce the "Whitc Burley." 1t is certainly
now greatly in the ascendant, and il we can
produce it to advantage we ought to reap
the fruits OF the demand while ii lasts.