Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-10-10

Mr.. Zach Green, of Spring Lick, Gray
son county, KY, says in letter TO the
at J. E. Layman's tobacco a few days ago,
and it looked SO large / thought / would
measure some of ii. l found the leaves
measuring 2 feet To IS inches wide, some of
it AZ inches in length, very uniform in size
all over the piece, which is small, as he is
only raising for his own use."
Henderson (Ky) Journal, Sept %: Tie
way tobacco has been slain this week is
enough to make an English buyer take of
his hat and weep. The crop is big one,
and Henderson county will walk up to the
front. Henderson stands at the head of the
class, and won't go to the foot. In some in
stances the weed may be cut green, but in
general Jack Frost may laugh over first
class ripe growth that he failed to catch.
"A correspondent of the Paducah News
at Sharp, Marshall county, says: We are
having plenty of rain and dsagreeable
weather for the time of the year Farmers
are wanting to cut tobacco and make mo-
laSses, but the rainy weather prevents either
from being done, as the rain will cause the
tobacco to get green aud go to growing
again. People are going to make more to-
bacco than they anticipated at the time of
the droutn.
-LYNCHBURG, VA, Oct. 5. At the annual
meeting of the Lynclburg Tobacco aSSocia-
ton held to-day Vice President Edwards,
in his report, stated that during the last
fiscal, year from Sept: 80, 1884, to Sept 80,
amounted TO IS ,306,939 pounds. This is an
exceedingly gratifying report. and places
Lynchburg ahead of any city in the world
in the amount of loose tobacco sold during
the fiscal year.
AT GAINESVILLE, Wis, October Is, and Hart
association of those States will respectively
meet in convention to consider how the
justed as TO fully protect domestic growers.
The question to be discussed is vital and
difficult one, and it is hoped a solution of
the problem will be reached through the
efforts of the men who will assemble in
those conventions.
A correspondent of the Paducah News
from Woodville writes: "Some fine cures
of tobacco have been made, and already /
have heard of n few lots being sold. 1t is
thought by the farmers, on account of the
extra quality of their crop. that it must
command fair prices, good, perhaps, as
they realize for last years production. Deal
eIS generally dissent from this idea, and
argue that prices must be materially lower,
and contend that unless such is the fact
that buyers VIII be scarce"
"A correspondent of the Western Tobac-
CO Journal, writing from Independence, KY,
says: "kenton county never grew finer,
leafier, gloSsier and as good bodied tobacco
in the history of White BuFley in our coun-
~. But the early cutting is damaged to
some extent-house burned. Wet weather
has damaged some barns very badly. The
later tobacco promises fine if frost does not
come too soon. Many are cutting too green,
fearing frost. But with good curing fall,
the present Indications are that we will
have splendid crop of White Burley."
The alpha" is the name of a new to-
bacco warehouse opened at Big Creek,
Tenn, by the Scottish Carolina Timber and
Land Company. In a personal letter to the
n. Y. Tobacco Leaf, the company says:
We have about ,60d barns pledged to us
to sell between October and May next of
the very finest grades of bright yellow leaf
The planters are ambitious, and MI we need
is company of good buyers. 1t Will be
worth their while to come; for If we are
successful in this attempt we shall throw
our own lands open next year, and within
two years rival Asheville at least. Newport
will be our centre. We are opening ut Big
Creek merely for con venience, as we have
yet no suitable buildings at Newport. We
are disposed, moreover, to work hand in
hand with manufacturers should they be
induced to come here.