Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-08-22
THE TOBACCO MARKET.
TRADE IN SEED Lear AND HAVANA.

TRADE IN SEED Lear AND HAVANA.
Everything Quiet In Now YORK and Phila-
deiphia-CUnneticut'sC Crop-A Glance
at tho Local Field.
U. 8. Tobacco journal.
Nothing has happened in the ma,ke
that calls for extended comment. The
situation remains unchanged. Old to-
bacco sells slowly at low figures only, and
new tobacco, excepting Connecticut
seconds, IS considered an outside article.
RumOrs were again atloat of sales Of sOme
packings Of new Wisconsin and Pennsyl
vania, but if true, the parties Interested
preserve suspicious silence.
The sales uf the week were as follows
'Pennsylvania-Crop so 100 cases, 10
to Is cents.
Connecticut-Crop 80; 100 cases wrap
pers, ~ to 35 cents crop 81 400 cases
seconds, 12t1 to 13 cents.
Ohio-Crop 80 800 cases, 4 to Z cents.
Havana-Market quiet. Sales, 400
bales. No change in quotations. i
Sumatra-Markct exceedingly active.
Sales, 800 bales, large manufacturers and
out of town jobbers being the main
buyers.
QuOtSliOuS . OiudI SILc, Oh W JO CCutS,
large size, but light, 81 to S1.O5 medium
size, dark, 81 10 to sl.20.
Cans Report.
Sales Of seed leaf tobacco reported by
j. s. Cans Son & Co., tobacco brokers,
No. 131 Water street. New York, for the
week ending August 81, 1882:
1000 cases Wisconsin Havana seed II to
20 - 800 cases 1881 New England, sec
Onds, 1O(913c 100 cases 1880 New Eng
land, wrappers. 14@3Oc 500 cases 1880
New York state, flats, private terms 800
cases 1880 Pennsylvania, S(g2O 100 cases
1880 Ohio. private terms; total, $500
cases. ....., ..
The Phlia,leIpIi,s Market.
Seed Leaf-This branch of trade, which
heretofore was very dull, now shows life
and u disposition On the part Of buyers to
make purchases. Some, however, are
hanging back, waiting for the time of
sampling new leaf; they desiie to look
aud examine they think it may bo just
the thing. Packers prefer to wait awhile
before opening cases !; they say it is too
some cases sold. What has been opened
looks well and inviting. Upon the whole,
the future prospects look very encOurag-
packers are too high. Farmers are likely
to make all the cream. Prices hold steady.
The Connecticut Tobacco Crop.
N. Y. Tobacco Leaf.
The present interest felt in the various
markets where old seed leaf is held, with
reference to the status of the growing
crop, has impelled us to commence our
customary annual tour in tho seed leaf
Il OF Spfc nnrixy fxvn he fhon
usual. We left New York on Tuesday
afternoon at p. M, and began writing
these line at Warehouse Point Wednesday
afternoon at p. m. The growing area
traverscd by US in this brief space of time
is limited but our course has been through
one Of the most important sections Of the
Connecticut river valley. Later on other
portions will he described.
We had heard that the crop now in the
ground was a comparative failure, and ii
we trusted to the lips of Others, rather
than our own eyes, We should have been
led to think such was tho case. Complaint
of the standing of the seed leaf crop is
common in most all the producing sections
of the country, as is evidenced by the
communications of our correspondents.
That the situation is no better IN the part
Of Connecticut from which this article is
sent than it is elsewhere is very plain
but that tho crop borders here upon fail
ure is a proposition to which our investi
gatiUns will not allow us to assent to. We
are forced to admit at the outset that to-
bacco never looked more belated in this
particular region than it does ut this mo-
ment but We judge there is going to be
time enough between row and harvesting
for :: development that will bring tho
yield up to two thirds of an average at
least. More than this is hardly to be ex
pccted.
Local Tobacco Matters.
The weather for the past week has been
very favorable for tho growth of to-
baccO, and fields that few weeks ago
looked almost worthless, now promise q
fair yield. Considerable quantities of the
early planted have been cut off and placed
upon the poles, but the bulk of the aver
age is yet growing, much of it being as
yet untipped, aud not a littlo scarcely
worth topping. Only the most sanguine
among our tobacco men believe there will
be more than from half to twO-thirds Of i
crop.
Very little is doing in old tobacco, the
sales of 1880 being mostly confined to
small lots for cigar manufacturers, who
buy from hand to mouth, in the belief,
probably, that they can do better when
the crop Of 1881 comes into market. As
far as it has been examined it appears to
be doing very we'll. b. E 80
A largo number Of packers, who have
been suInmering at the watering places,
have returned to Lancaster to take a run
through the country aud look up the pros
poets of the crop of 1889 and to be on hand
in time for thu Samnlinr Of 1891 Edward
Burke of the New York Tobacco Leaf is
here on his annual visit for the same pur-
pose He has Travelled through most of
the tobacco districts of other states and
dotted down his observations, and will no
doubt furnish for his paper an article Oh
Lancaster tobacco.
What Some Growers and buyers Say.
Some parts of the county have been
visited by five rains during the last week
and some of the later tobacco bids fair to
make . medium crop. There are still to
be seen plenty of poor fields and some not
yet bigger than mans hand, and in all
you will find more or less small and very
considerable that is now being cut has
not more than one-half as much on the
ground as there should be, but what is
being cut looks fine and shows fair leaf
in some sections, in others the leaf is not
perfect by any means.
Wo have interviewed one Of tho best
growers in tho county, and his ideas are
that there will bc about full half crop,
with some as fine goods as ever were
pack, but a small percentage of it. He
has five acres in three different fields, one
of them, q very early planting, is almost
off and is fine, large leaf the second is
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