Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-05-15

On our fourth page will b found the
New York and Philadelphia tobacco mar.
kets. During the past week several hun.
dred cases Of 80 and 81 leaf were sold BY
Lancaster packers. and there xre reports
Of few sales Of % to cigar manufactur.
ers. These early purchases Of tho last.
named, crop are said To be owing to tho
fne quality and low price Of the goods,
which It is thought VIII increase In price
after it has been sweatsd and prepared for
manufacturing purposes.
Several packers still have thoir agents
in the field buying mp the remnant Of tho
crop Of ~ yem njeg q % hands Of
farmerE Tht lot3 Wevr. are becoming
much sscatte1pd N lolk 6rives arc 10.
quired to Ind thslh, and whom found most
Of the goods are Of medium or low grade.
There are few very good crops yet in the
farmers' hands, but they are held at
prices SbVyA the yieNQtof hayHA A few
1ots wefS tsken vieAiEs vsek, . high .
20 cents for wrappers, but tho average
price has not been above 10, with seconds
at 4, end fil1RN 4 cS0ts pound. A good
many lots have Of inferior or hail cut
goods have been gathered in at good deal
lower rates.
In the course of week or two all of the
oeop of 'S3 that can be bought at fair
fguFos will be taken by the dealers, and
tAAt which is held above its market value
will have to be packed by the farmers
themselves, as it will deteriOrato greatly il
allowed to remain in bulk much longer.
We hear of one farmer land there are
probably Others), who holds al tho tobacco
grown by him for tho past three years. He
thinks his goods worth more than the
dealers offer him, and so holds on to them
,fbr . rise." He foIgets that the nimble
sixpense is better than the slow shilling.
, The low prices at which tho crop of 1889
has beso sold sugGS5ts the prOpristy of the
tobacco growers ro0rganizing the Tobacco
association, which was in existence some
yeaFs go. BY aQDemblipg together once
. Doath, interchd dnging hiew1 Md having
the proceedings pukliseed - ne county
newspapers, would aid them in various
ways. The best methods of cultivating
and handling the weed, the best means Of
securing lit agaf1pt, the ravages of in
Sects aAd mdht cOther valuable sug
gestiOnS would be made known, and
the farmers could keep much more ac-
curate run of the condition of the market,
andlbe much hjlessj likely to b imposed on
than they are now, when each one is going
it on his own hook. A principal rea-
son given for Aishs3dibg the old
assocta6on| wasu tksS the buyers
would not patronize farmers belonging to
it, and hence the price Of the goods would
be- run down. B0tit 10 . faCt TINT while
the association was in existence the prices
paid farmers were higher than they have
ever been since. A. reorganization of the
Tobacco Growers associations should be at
once made. Who will take the lead?
The continued cold weather is keeping
back the plants and tho flea continues to
feast on the plant beds. some Of which
have been utterly ruined. We, have not
heard of single field being yet planted,
though We are now in the middle of May.
In some former years a good deal of the
crop MAS rot out BY this time ;shough of
course. it will be quite early enough to set
the plants an any favorable opportunity
for . mootb to con6! TO GtOF blaUni