Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-01-06

the buyers expect it, and buy with
! that understanding.
The buyers fear ii, but hope the
contrary, and would pay more, il
they were sure the hog5head was uni
form.
Very many planters, rigidly exact
in their packing, have been discour-
aged by their neighbors who were less
careful, realizing an equal price, but
point has been reached when all
this will change, and honesty and
carefulness reap their just reward.
There is no true reason why a hogs
head of good leaf should he lined
with inferior or Tugs, any more than
that barrel of -four should be lined
with bran.
Great blame is thrown upon the In.
| spectors, but without doubt they gen.
orally: try to do their duty, though
Warehousemen in their contest for
business may sometimes try to inf1u-
ence them. The great root OF the
evil is In the packing, and we should
strike at that; if the hogshead is
packed uniformly, the Inspector can
not draw sample unfair to either
buyer or seller.
Some will say that a few short bum
dies of same quality as the long, fits
better around the turns. Our advice
is to pack none, but let the hogshead
be uniform from head to head, and
side to side. In small crops, or where
remnants exist, the rule for packing
is simple. Pack in first of all your
best, then follow it with next grade,
and so on, then a sample will show a
fair proportion of each grade, and an
honestly mixed hogshead will always
bring its full value"
We have but few words to add to
those written ten years ago, but to
show that the evils formerly COM
planned of have again increased, we
quote from the circulars of the great
house of Messrs. ID. III. Watjen & Co.,
of Bremen, as follows: They say un-
der date of November 10Th, 1879:
"There is, hOtoeuer, one other thing
which creates great indignation amongst
our tobacco men, and sChich has evidently
a good deal to do sUiththe present indifferent
feeling in our marked; Uhat zoe allude to is
the negligence, not to use a more aggraUdt-
ing tcOrd, aOhich by some Of the American
inspection houses IS pradiced in draWing
samples indeed, every body interested IN
the trade ought to help renaoving this
plague, for 1t ispsas oar mode Of business
altogether, inasmuch as, based upon the
strength Of American truth and honesty, ii
has for years been rule Cith as to sell to-
bocco by the American samples, Dhich
necessarily must cease If faith can no long
er be placed in the correctness Of the sam
PIES"
And under date of 31st of October,
1882:
"Western groaCth that the above remarks
are meant, bat before lOe enter upon the teV
particulars Which last month strdnsations
are Offering, sUe irish to duel for moment
on the shameless mode Of irregular packing,
aOhich hGssbeen praaiced during this last
season. u is not only the loss Of money
from such punishable proceeding
that aOe speak Of, and aUhich frequently
to several cents a pound, but an
many other respects also IL operates most
If the trade does not er-
actly get the quality that aOds bought, and
'oe lOosCId therefore earnestly recommend to
adopt in future such system. Of packing and
Of handling the aOeed as aVM guarantee the
correctness Of the break samples. On the
long run every one aOiH reap the benefit o
Il, 1t being great difference aOhether The
buyer can step toraOard resOlutely, or aUhether
he has to act soith a certain reluctance for
fear Of being taken in."
We could add complaints from
other markets and from manufacture
ers, but enough has been said to show
that there is just ground for the
charges. Years ago we had trade
with Liverpool for long African leaf
amounting to near 1000 Hhds. per
This trade has been utterly
lost to us by the habit of packing
shorter or inferior leaf around the
and the Louisville rehandlers
have fairly won our former trade by
asserting and measuring
each bundle and making their pack
ages uniform from head to head and |
side to side. We have at this time
Inspection purchases lying in Liver
pool, shipped over four years ago,
which the African buyers pass by be-
cause packed in our Districts. What |
! benefit it would be to our markets
had we half dozen eager buyers for
ong leaf throughout the season; and |
now we have a sIackness of Bremen
demand, which market seems to feel
hat it can only safely buy our To-
oaecos by scaling of prices to cover
he probable Irregular packing. Sell
rs complain sometimes that they get
title or no more for their leaf than
hey do for their good Jugs. They
nay find some reason for this in "a
lose reading of our extracts.
Our Boards of Trade have expressed
at various times in no I'M
ertain tone in regard to this matter,
nd we have no branch of our trade
Who would be more gratified at seeing
thorough reform in our packing
han our Warehousemen. IT would
elieve them ola vast amount of care,
esponsihility, and of annoying rec
and enable them to make
ales at higher prices of the property
unsigned to them.
We have determined for our part to
id a reform as far as we are able, by
'oing to our extreme figures for all
lids. we know to be uniformly
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