Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-09-12
THE TOBACCO CROP.
DESTRUCTION BY THE HAIL srORMs.

ny THE HAIL STORMS.
Much Good Tobacco safely Housed and
Much more Growing Finsly-
sales Of Old Tobacco.
. The growing crop of the southern
has got another very bad black
eve from the hail storm of Friday which,
We think, was tho severest that ever visit
ed this county. Our reporter, who has
visited some of the parts over which 1t
passed, never saw such pitiable sight the
fields look as though harrow had been
run through them, leaving nothing standing
but the bare stock. The crop was mostly
three weeks late and some of tho very
best tobacco in the lower end Of the cOun-
ty would have been ready to cut next
week. It is on this kind the loss is heavy.
Much of the late tobacco was very poor,
but that which came in between the very
early and the very late was by odds the
best goods. 1t had grown very rapidly
and was of fine texture.
The very early had been pretty we'll
housed and such growers are congratulate
ing themselves. 1t is only a few days
since We saw one of our newspapers con-
graduating the hail companys ON their
good fortune this year. The losses to all
of them will be very heavy. A local agent
of one of them in the lower end says he had
over one hundred losers call on him on
Saturday to have their losses adjusted,
very many of them claiming total loss.
Some of the growers say they will plow
down their ruined tObacco, as it will not
pay to cut it. b
But, while our friends in the southern
section have suffered terribly, farmers in
the other sections of the county have thus
far escaped all damage by hail. They have
housed from one third to one-half of the
crop and, though some of it is short, all of
it is clean, and much Of it is large and of
fine texture. The weather has been favor
able for the growth Of late planted fields
and they have improved wonderfully
within the past three weeks. For some
days past there has been too much rain,
and farmers have been prevented from
cutting off and housing that part Of the
crop which is ripe and ready for the poles.
They are now praying for warm, clear
weather which will add growth to that
which is green and enable them to harvest
that which is ripe. Their greatest DANCE rs
now are early frosts and hail storms.
There have been plenty of buyers out
during the last week, but they say they
are only looking at tho crop, but We have
heard some "big" offers for real fine
goods. Farmers are very stiff in their
figures and declare they will not sell until
their crops are stripped, which is always
the safest plan and prevents much dissen.
sion.
The demand for old tobacco has been
more active, and some 500 or 600 cases
changed hands during the week at prices
ranging from Is to 25 for running lots,
some fine wrappers selling as high as 35
and 40.
The sampling of the 81 crop is going
on satisfactorily, the goods showing good
color and fine quality.
The New York Tobacco Journal c0ntin-
ues to bewail the importation of Sumatra
tobacco, which, although it is confessedly
worthless for smoking purposes. is sought
by manufacturers with wonderful avidity,
and, the Journal fears, will ruin the Ameri.
can grower, unless it is kept out of the
country by a prohibitive duty! Oul
farmers need not, however, bt
alarmed. If all the tobacco grown
in Sumatra were imported into the United
States (which of course it is not and nevel
will be) it would be but "drop in th'
bucket" compared with our immense Ia
tive crops. Less than 1, 200 cases of 6u-
matra have been imported during TIN
eight months Of 1882, while we have ex
ported from New York alone during the
same time, 73, 900 hhds. %, 900 cases, &c,
900 bales of manufactured tObaccOs, anC
4. COO, 900 lbs. of manufactured tobacco
to say nothing of the other millions o.
pounds used for home consumption
Sumatra tobacco may make a very pretty
wrapper, but American tobacco grower,
have nothing to fear from it, if it were ad
mitted duty free.
Tobacco Notes.
During Fridays hail storm considerable
damage was done to the tobacco ab0u
one mile south of New Holland, in Ear
township. Jacob r. Musser had six acre:
cut to pieces; John II. Huber, the De.
Havens and other farmers in the vicinity
arc heavy losers: To the northe asst o
New Holland, in East Earl and C1rnar-
Won townships, tho crops of Sheriff High,
the Weavers and Souders, and many
others, were greatly damaged by ths
hail.
A correspondent writing from .Schoch' s
Mills states that the tobacco grown by
James Morrison, Daniel Sipling, and Others
on an island, lying about one and a-hali
miles west Of SchOch's Mills, formerly
owned by Mr.. Hackenberger, and now
owned by Jacob F. Charles, is very fine
and most of it has been safely housed. The
crop comprises seventeen acres, of the
Glessner variety, and many of the leaves
measure As inches in length and from %
tc "a in width.
The September report Of tho depart.
ment of agriculture shows the tobacco
crop in tho states named to be az follows,
100 representing full crop: Pennsylva.
mia Sc, Maryland %, Virginia 90, Kentucky
91, Ohio Is. The general average is pu,
Tho New York Market.
N. i. Tobacco Journal.
Cigar manufacturers arc busy, as they
find plenty of buyers nearly all packers
of new tobacco have finished sampling,
and still-the seed leaf market is in de-
condition, and sales of few
cases create . sensation, when in
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