Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-11-21
TOBACCO NOTES.

TOBACCO NOTES.
John NJ. Hodge 4 Co., of Henderson, KY,
are improving their machinery for manu-
featuring tobacco, and will increase the
amount OF their shipments this year.
~. H. Moore & Co.. of Louisville, IN their
November circular ad wise tobacco buyers
that they viii have TO buy reggie kinds at
lower prices than prevailed this year.
-Owensboro Messenger: t. & F. Walden
of Sorghotown precinct, have a new kind OF
tobacco which averages 5 lbs. to the slick.
They call it Poor Mans Friend, grown from
seed procured in Henderson county.
The following is from the report of
Messrs. NJ. H. Clark & Bro, of this city, to
the New York Tobacco Leaf: The crop is
curing up fast under favorable weather, and
being, as rule, a mean one, planters Will
push it forward early to market and try for
Is better crop next time.
Phelps & Co., of the Planters Tobacco Ware
house, Louisville, has been satisfactorily
settled and dismissed. Mr.. Boyd sued Tor a
settlement of accounts claiming SS4,OOo as
due him, but accepts SIS 600 of stock in the
Planters Warehouse Co. in full settlement
of his claim.
"A report from Henderson, KY, says: In
rough numbers One-half million pounds OF
tobacc3 have been sold in the market since
the opening of the season. Want of money
has forced farmers to bring in portions of
their crop before it is really cured. What
has been sold is, however, of an inferior
grade, and has brought low price. The
highest price as yet paid for a crop is z, z and
2. This same tobacco last year would have
brought or ga OF and 2, showing tobocco
is somewhere in the neighborhood of one
dollar O hundred less than last season. No
sales in the warehouse up to this time.
of the late tobacco of Kentucky the Ag-
ricuItural Commissioner in his November
report says: The season has exactly suited
the late tobacco, which constituted nearly
so per cent. of the crop, consequently every
where that crop is reported as having Won
derfully improved since October LIST. Forty
eight counties report acreage at 50 per cent
of full crop, condition 50 per cent, both
figures being an improvement of from 10 to
Is points over the last report. The entire
crop has been housed in good condition, the
season having been unusually favorable for
curing with she richest color and gloss, and
we are convinced that with full and careful
reports from every tobacco growing county,
the general averages of the crop would have
gone up to 100.
Western Tobacco Journal: The Trade
of Ciarksville, inspired by the large in
crease in their trade the past commercial
wear (ende6 with Septemberl and the great
possibilities in store, due 10 the opening of
great lines of railroad. have gone in with a
vim to make this years record the most
satisfactory in the history of the market.
Some entertain the hopes that with proper
efforts their sales can be made to reach
close to $4,000 hogsheads, and with this
hope in view, their warehouse facilities
have been enlarged and their banking IA
cilities increased. Hopkinsville warehouse
men are also inclined to push matters, but
the raill Dads seem to give an advantage to
the Clarksvlllians that can not be over
come by their rivals. Up to Nov. LIST, this
year. GAINESVILLE has received 2S,Sl1 hogs
heads of tobacco, while sales have reached
q, 989 hogsheads.
A Northern man who has recently tray
eled through the tobacco growing districts
of Kentucky writes as follows to 1.-THE Coun-
try Gentleman" What strikes one in the
tobacco growing regions, is the perfection of
the fields in stand and cultivation. Not a
weed, or scarcely p weed to be seen, the rows
as straight as line could make them, and
the stand so complete, scarcely a hill miss
ing in fields of five or ten acres or more /!
One would expect this nice handling of to-
bacco during growth would be visible in
other crops, but the corn, about the only
other crop, was nearly as weedy as at home,
which is saying good deal. In portions of
the lower cotton belt, understand that
cotton is handled in the same thorough
manner, and would like to have northern
farmers, who think all Southern agriculture
slovenly, correct their notions by view OF
these crops, where they are so Skfllfully Gull
tivated and successfully grown.
We copy the following from the circular
of Walter Bird Il Co, showing the stock of
49,
LONDON
Stock of American tobacco LIST Oct, 24,I47
Imported in Oct, lSS3.-.-......-...... 2,739
26 $50
Delivered in Oct, 1SS5................. I,l29
Stock on hand nov. /, 1SS5.......... 5,757
LIVERPOOL.
Stock OF American tobacco, Ist Oct, 30.00l
Imported in Oct, 1885. 2,lS2
82,lS3
Delivered in Oct, ISS5................ 1874
Stock on hand list Nov, 1885,. ......... 81, 500
"A correspondent of the New York Times
writing from BEAUFORT, Canada, says: II
found the boys all smoking; not stealing off
behind stone walls or TO the woods to make
themselves sick on the sly, as boys do in
other places, but sitting down on the piaZ-
zers with the rest of the family, quietly en-
joying Sunday afternoon pipe like the old
man. If you want to see fifty boys under
eight years old all smoking big wooden
pipes with as much a matter-of-courSe air
as they would eat their dinners with, take a
Sunday afternoon drive through BEAUFORT.
Other boys were smoking cigars. AT one
place, where the house was n story and a
half high, with big dormer windows open
ing upon the roof, / saw group of four or
five boys. the oldest certainly not ten years
old, sitting on a window sill, and around it
on the roof, all smoking pipes and cigars. l
saw youngsters no Older than these scraping
out their pipes with knives like old men,
and others, walking along, getting lights
from their companions, or borrowing pipe
full of tobacco, and none of this with the air
of doing anything unusual, but i'll the most
matter-ot-fact way, as If they were old
smokers.
appear that the South Carolinians are be-
coming aroused to the wealth in tobacco,
and it is not unlikely that good many
acres OF certain sections OF that state VIII
the coming year lie put under tobacco as an
experiment. Some few have grown small
patches the past year or two, and kheir eX-
perience has been so pleasant and encour-
aging that they have made public the re-
suits through the columns of the Charleston
Is. c. News and Courier, which Journal is
giving all the assistance possible In Intro
ducing tobacco culture in the State. They
have very little winter weather in that
State, and it is possible to plant much ear
lier than in any other State-aS early as
February and March plant beds can he
seeded This is an advantage If not fol-
lowed too soon by dry hot weather, that
may lead South Carolina we'll up in the list
of tobacco producing States. 1t has been
proven that it is a far more profitable in
dustry than cotton culture, the main crop
of the State, and this will be an incentive
that will lure wide awake, intelligent farm
erS into its culture. Many farmers will
bring men from the older States that are
expert in the culture and cure of the
tweed" and thus obtain the knowledge
d necessary 10 make the business profitable
Experiments have proved that good yellow
leaf can be grown, and also cigar leaf,
though probably little of the latter Will be
grown.
The first classification IS that of "Ieaf'
and Tugs" Lugs are the lower leaves of the
growing nearest the ground
and these are mixed with worm eaten, torn
and distigured leaves. In short, they are the
refuse of the crop. Leaf tobacco is the
culled product diveSted OF the Tugs or infer-
Tor leaves, and is called "long leaf1' or ssh ort
leaf" according to length. "LVszs'' and
leaf are both leaf tobacco in sfFt4 sens,
That leaves, as cOntra-diStingusshed from
stems and stalks, make no the grades, Tut
they are classified as stated above to dis,in
guiSh them. The same classification is an
piled 10 all the different sOrts-dividjng into
Jugs and leaf, the selected from the cullings
The leaves ''pruned' of when the plants are
topped, If cured, are called ''primiDgs ~
And law ought to be passed forbidd{ng
me saving of primingS; for they seldom pay
The cost of saving and they help to crowd
an already OVerstocked market with snbsti-
lutes-for they don't deserve the name of
tobacco, The shipping grades, which con-
Sltute tne pulk OF the exports from the to-
Oacco Deit, are cured usually of n dark color
varying from n bright nutmeg 10 almoSt
black. These are divided, according to GER
Ialn pecullaritieS, into English and CCAntj-
nehtaI Shlpp1ng. african black fiatS'7etc
lhey are dark in color and rich |
IN h1cotlne, gum, oil, etc. Shippers strictly
are all IRE cured, but the demand for sweet |
GLORY tobacco is increasing, while the hard
or as formerly. "FilierS'' conssfsute that
portion OF the crOp-tiue, sun or air dried, |
uss ahd Ieat,sought for by manufacturers I
or making plug, twist, or other forms OF |
;hewlng tuhacco. This class varies in color |
rom q dark nutmeg to a bri .yht yellow The /
aVorlte colorS are u bright cheI.ry.red, ma
logony, and orange. "Brishrs," wrappers,
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