Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-06-16
Prospects as to the 1886 Tobacco
Crop.
LCln. Tobacco journal. |

[Cin. Tobacco Journal
The general opiuion few weeks
ago was that Tobacco planting this
year would be unusually late, in fact
great many were ready to abandon
their crop, believing that it would be
so late that the prospects were Che
Tobacco would be caught by the frost
before it could be matured. Now
the frowns are all turned 10 broad
smiles, and .contented look (for
the average planter never feels abso-
lutel y content until he has his crop
barned in good condilion) Is observed
OH the faces of most planters, for the
past three weeks have been SO full
OF alternate hot and rainy weather
that the plants have sprung up with
unusual vim, and we know the pros
poets were not better, even if as good,
this time last year. The beneficial
weather has not been confined 10 any
special district or districts, but seems
to have Eeen distributed with Impair
tiality in all sections by the Great
Jehovah. Few there are that now
feel disconsolale or doubuul as to the
Tobacco crop, a great portion of
which is now i'll the fields, aud thriv-
ing fast under the hot sun and heavy
rains. In the Virginia, North Car
olina and Eastern Tennessee and
and Maryland districts, the greater
part Of the crop is now in the fields.
In the Western States the work has
not Of course progressed as far, but
with anything like favorable weather,
there will be little to plant after this
week. 1t is more likely that the
planting in the Atlantic States will
be as large If not larger than last
year, as there has bcen no discomfort
as to prices for The 1884 crop, they
being generally very good.
In The West there is not likely 10
be any reduction except in the White
Burley section, and in this the de-
crease many not be as large as antic-
ipated, though it will be considerable,
as prices for the 1854 crop did not
average much over One-half of those
paid for 1883 Tobacco. This was
such a material reduction that ii
disheartened many, especially as the
yield Of Good Leaf has been proved
to be dispropOrtionately small. For
those working the crop on shares
(and great part of it in Kentucky is
worked that way, there was no
money in tue business, and as many
of them had their first experience
with ihe 1884 crop, they have moth
lug in their own experience TO induce
them TO hope for the better. In con-
sequence, many of them have aban-
dOned White Durley for the Dark
types, hemp or some other products.
This decline will chiefly be in the
new districts-in The Blue Grass
section and in counties further East
aud South; yet the older districts
may also show decline, as the low
price of the 1884 crop was exceedingly
distaslelul and unsatisfactory to
many who had been in the habit Of
getting for years from $l2,CO TO 1850
per hundred for their crops in their
barns. All alike seem 10 regard the
prices of 1883 and previous crops as
things of the past, never TO be repeat
ed. Prices generally received for
the Dark types, marketed at Louis
vile, Clarksville, Henderson, Hop
kinsville, Mayfield, Paducah, Nash
vile, and other markets, have been
so satisfactory-oiten commanding as
much per pound as White Burley-
that a large acreage may be expected
in this type. The general character
of this type in The 1884 crop was
above tina, of White Durley.
There are some complaints made as
20 The cut worms, but they are not
numerous and general enough 10 YET
create any alarm, and there is good
reason to hope that there will not be
much 10 fear from destructive insects
of any kind, as so many of the plants
were raised under canvass.
In the Cigar Leaf State the weather
has been such as to push the plants
rapidly forward, and here have been
some paintings made, especially in
Ohio, Pennyslvauia and the Connec-
licut Valley. In Wisconsin there
will be some planted this week, and
by the end of this month, if the
weather is not too dry and hot, there
will be few plants lett in the beds
About a month ago in the Eastern
States there was considerable doubt
felt as to the acreage to be put out,
but since that the weather has proved
most propitious, and buyers became
quite active in purchasing crops, and
much of the doubt and dissatisfaction
has been cleared away, and it is prob
able there will be no material reduc'
! tion in acreage, though the Connect
cut Valley and New York will prob
ably show small decline. In the
West. and Wisconsin especially, there
will be a very good crop put out
The planters of the Badger State vii
be more numerous than ever and
their Tobacco acreage materially i'll
creased. This is fol egone conclusion
1t will rest wholly with Providence
what measure of success will crown
their efforts, for they will do all tha
is possible TO bring about the best o.
results.
To sum up in brief, the prospects
for al least a very good average crol
are moi in any way discouraging-
rather quiet eXhilaraiing.
A Hearty, Ringing Laugh!