Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-17
THE LEAF.



There has not been anything in the
trade during the past week worthy of es
pecial remark. Packers are still in the
field buying such lots as are offered at rea.
sonable rates. Some of them who are
pretty we'll supplied with leaf declare that
there is not 1000 eases left in the hands OF
the growers, while others, perhaps not SO
well supplied or more sanguine, affirm
there is not less than IL, 600 or Is, 600 cases
yet unbought. 1t is generally conceded
that the crop, as whole, is better than it
was supposed to be earlier in the season.
Much of it is fea-bitten, but not
SO badly as was feared. There is certainly
a good deal of "white vein =" in it, but
careful handling has pretty we'll eliminated
it and the sum total thrown aside is not
unusually large. On the other hand, it
has been found that great proportion of
the crop is equal to any ever grown in the
county and q skilled operator of twenty
years. experience remarked this morning
''There's no use in people saying that York,
Berks, Lebanon Or other Pennsylvania TO-
baccO is as good as that grown in Lancas-
ter county have seen and handled all
of it, and l know that none grown else
where equals that grown in Lancaster
county,"
We paid a visit to E. Rosenwald's large
packing warehouse, on the Harrisburg
turnpike and were shown it by Mr.. VIM.
Shultz, the manager and agent. The
building is Of brick 100 feet in depth by
&C feet IN width, is four stories high, in
cluding basement, and calculated to hold
about 4, 600 cases of packed tobacco. We
found nearly 1900 cases of packed leaf
in the warehouse and great deal of loose
A<,k z nc
Mr.. Shuitz has about 6j men at work,
packing. lie is yet buying, when he can
find lots that suit him in quality and
price. The highest price he has paid this
season was % cents for wrappers, cents
tor seconds and ; cents for filters. The
lowest price paid was cents round. The
bulk of his purchases consisted Of the bet
ter grades, and some samples shown were
exceptionally fine. In one packing of one
hundred were ten cases of 5 and AS ten
Of4 AS; twelve of ; AS; sixteen of 2
AS fourteen of AS, the balance being
short wrappers, seconds and filters. Mr..
Shultz says the crop of 1880, of this county
will average fully GO cases of wrappers to
40 of seconds and filters.
We mention the above as 4 fair sample
Of what has been done and is being done
at other warehouses in the city, at a few
Of which larger quantities have been pack
ed, and at others much less.
The plant beds generally look we'll, and
although some of them have been visited
by insects there will be no lack of plants.
The growers this year have larger beds
than ever before. They have learned that
it is che lper to have thousand plants too
many than hundred too few. A few
farmers have already set out a part of
their plants, hut not many. The weather
has thus far been too dry and too cold,
and at any rate it is as yet a little too early
to pull the young plants away from their
little beds.
Recent sales.
John p. King, of Strasburg township,
sold a lot to G. Herr at II, ), 3; another
lot at 12!, s, 3; Lohn Brown, of Cecil
county, Md. to DE Haven, ut 10. 8, 81;
Howard L. Baker, of Chester county, to
Stirk, at 12, 3; Mr.. Alexander, of Little
Britain township, to Skiles & Frey, at Is,
5, 3; another lot at 10, 4, 3; J. W. Mes
beth, Of Cecil county, Nd, to Dehaven, at
8, 4, 9; John GOss, Of Conoy township, to
Bryan Atwater, at 25. 4, 2; Mr.. Hertzler,
OF JuDiata county, to ROhrer, aJ around
lam MusSer Of Mannheim tnwuSlin tn