Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-26
THE LEAF.
Local Tobacco Affairs.

The cry among tobacco farmers from
one end Of Lancaster county to the
other is for rain. Tobacco is such a
rank and juicy weed, that to perfect its
growth 4 great deal of moisture is neces-
sary, both in the air and in
the earth. For some weeks past
large sections Of the county have been
utterly void of rain. and s'old
probabilities has given them '.high bar
Ometer and rising temperature" with al
most invariable regularity. The air has
been hot and dry, the ground parched and
the tobacco consequently checked in its
growth. From several sections Of the
county it is reported to DO stunted and
running to seed, and too much injured to
be recuperated. even if tho weather should
henceforth prove favorable.
In more favored sections whcrc local
rains have prevailed the growing crop
looks fine, and il it does not meet with any
untOward casualty-as hail, tfeas, green
worm, etc.--in those favored sections i
full crop will be gathered. 1t is hardly
possible, however, that even with the i'll
creased acreage OF the present year tho
crop OF the county will equal that Of
last year Or the year before.
There have been few sales Of packed
tobacco recently. The Mcssrs. Lachen-
bruch have sold over 500 cases moro or
their Lancaster county packing to New
York manufacturing house. Cans, Of
New York. has bought two or three pack
Jugs. and Frank II. Bacr has sold to Op-
penheimer 500 cases packed in this city ut
Wertheimer's warehouse. The prices
paid for these several packings have not
been made public.
Our esteemed and entcrprising cOtem-
porary, the New York Tobacco Journal,
has discovered another mares nest,
namely, that the growers of Lancas:e er
county consider themselves rs having
been nut.ed Ca German-American term
for fOoled) by tho packers, and express
their determination to get square with
them on the 81 CROP and forthwith the
editor sounds the alarm.
In another article adorned with glaring
headlines the Journal cautions its readers
against combination among certain
packers tn ''cOrnCr the 81 crop Of Penn
sylvania.' These are it's words:
n rumOr was in circulation in the seed
leaf market this week that combination
had been formed by several large and
wealthy city packing firms and some banks
to corner the 80 Pennsylvania crop. Those
named rs being ut the head Of the move.
ment are Bunzl & Dormitzer, Havemeyers
Il Vigelius, E. Rosenwald & Bro. and one
Or two others. These firms, it is said,
packed but very little of the 80 Penn
sylvania CROP fearing to make an extcn
sive investment in it owing to the supposed
injury to the leaf by tleas and other Veans.
Now that this crop rapidly sells at very
paying figures, notwithstanding many al
legged deficiencies, and as it almost seems
that manufacturers take hold Of Penn.
sylvania whether it is good or bad, the
"'outs' are said to be bound to be the
:'ins this year, and therefore have formed
4 combination to purchase the best portion
of the 81 Pennsylvania crOD as soon as
it is Gut, without competing with each
other and before others in the trade are
aware of their operations. For this pur-
pose number of agents living in the to-
bacco- growing sections Of Pennsylvania
are claimed to have already been engaged.
and ut the word "go' are to start out and
buy up what it is thought is worth buying
up, and leave tho rest to the outsiders.
Now Tobacco Warehouse.
Mr.. L. T. Hcnsel, is about to commence
the erection OF 4 two story brick tobacco
warehouse, adjoin;n. his present ware
house in Quarryvillc. The new building
will be SO by so feet, and have an eight
foot cellar beneath it. 1t will be built in
the most substantial manner, and contain
all approved convenicnces and appliances.