Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-08-09
TIE LOWER END TOBACCO CROP.
ObservAtlons Of . Trip Throuah the Lower
Township.

Dissertations Of . Trip Throush The Lower
Township.
After long waiting tho rain has come
and tho earth has received thorough
soaking, but too late, We fear, for a great
portion Of the weed. After the rain We
took a drive over the most productive part
of the tobacco growing district Of this
county and the upper end of Chester. Our
own observations of the crop are, that
whilst there are few fine crops, the aver
age is not any better than has heretofore
been stated in the INTELLIGENCER. We
saw great deal that was really worse
than We had anticipated-sOme of it look
ing as though it had been set out. In
fact, it never has grown since it was plant
ed. In other fields We found that the
weeds and grass have never been cleared
of, and others, at q short distance of,
one would suppose there was nothing in
the field at all. Many fields are only half
set, and if all that is left natures it will
probably make 500 pounds to the acre.
In some cases the tobacco is small, with
Only six or eight leaves, and is shooting
the seed pods. Of course such plants will
never make much of crop. We were
struck with the irregularity of many
fields. There would be several rows Of
fine tobacco on one side, but the plants
would become smaller and smaller until
they ran down to almost nothing. Evil
dently early planting with good plants was
the cause of the first, and poor plants the
cause of the latter.
We saw some few fine crops, that is.
fine for this year, but do not think any of
them came up to what they should be. Of
course leaves of 40 inches, &C., will be seen,
but the trouble is there are not enough Of
them. Another strange thing is that
sOmo OF the best farmers on the best kind
Of farms have poor crops of tobacco, while
they have immense crops of corn and six
or eight big stacks of wheat. One of them
said do not understand this thing l
have always had good tobacco but this
year it would not grow" Such is the
case. The season has certainly been un-
favorable for tobacco. In Drumcre, about
Fairfield and Liberty Square, We saw the
finest crops We have seen this season, but
not very many of them but We were
struck with the number of new sheds in
this section as we'll as the quality of them.
They are all large and built with an eye
to beauty.
From what We saw We are of the opinion
that tho crop will not be over a half Of an
average, and that the quantity of fine in it
will be a very small percentage. Those
who have good goods are already putting
big figures on them, and We venture to
say that most of it will be bought in the
field this season. nor will there be much
sold by inches unless it is bought from IL
or 4 inches up. There will be very few
who will sell "a or even 20 inches ur.
That would not be very safe transaction.
Jacob ID. Warfel, proprietor Of the hotel
at Intercourse, has . fine patch of tobacco
about q acres in extent. 1t is very regu-
lar in size, tho leaves averaging about 81
inches in length and FREQ from blemish.
For particulars of damage done the to-
baccO by the storm Of Monday, see ac-
count furnished by special reporter in
another column.