Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-12-12


The Henderson journal OF Fridry says:
Although n considerable number of loads
and twenty-five or thirty crops have been
sold on the street this week, by reason of
prices being kept back and the Uniform poor
quality of tobacco thrust upon the market,
there is no exact determining of prices COM
pared with those of last year. Two very fine
crops have been sold within the past two
days, both raised in the Frog Island neigh
borhood. Mr.. John Book received for his
entire crop, 50, 50 and So. Mrs. H. b Book
received S. -, IS 10 and So. Mr.. Geo. Spen-
Ger sold crop of 5000 lbs. at IS 80 and 81
Mr.. Will Blake received for n crop of 600
lbs. SIS, S.. and 81. Two thousand pounds
were sold by Mr.. H. d. Denton at s. ., So IS
and 81 Mr.. j.. b. Busby, Of Frog Island,
sold at S. 30, SIS 30 and So. The other crops
sold brought lower price. Since the OPEN
ing of the market prices have advanced Is
or y cents hundred, and nd range about as
Good, s. 10 to 81 50. Common, 81 TO So. All
the purchasers are now in the market and
fuse the prices offered them. Should there
be change in prices up or down, ii will be
scarcely noticeable"
of the Louisville market the Farm
ers Home Journal of Saturday says
1.-THE market during the early part of
the week was quite featureleSs in all its
branches for all grades offering. But later
on, two hhds. new Burnley leaf sold at $40 rs
and Sll, so far the highest prices of the sea-
son, neither of those We're by any means
ley are stiff and selling at little advance
over the early part of the week. In the old
tobacco of either grades We see no change
and not much of it offering. Dark new is
very much the same as last week, both as to
the quality and quantity and price. While
1t is active and wanted, it is practically at
the same range of prices. As the two weeks
past and as We approach the holidays we
need look for no change, for during the last
half of the month the manufacturers do not
care to lay in any stock, except for immedi-
ate pressing wants, as preparations are in
order for the taking stock on the LIST of jan
uary, and it will be the 10th of the month
before they are in full operation. Stock was
reduced in November 1895 hhdS." State
ments obtained at the Treasury Department
in Washington show that the expiration
of leaf tobacco in the year just closing, will
be nearly 80 per cent. greater that of last
year. While prices have kept up in a very
satisfactory manner the expectations of leaf
tobacco in the year which ends with the
present month, will amount to nearly three
hundred million pounds.
The cultivation OF tobacco is RAPIDLY ex-
tending in the United States. In 1879 wis
consin was not counted among the tobacco
states, the crop of 1869 being less than IOOO,-
900 pounds. In 1879 its production had in
creased over ten-fOld. In the census wear
(ISSu) $50 acres were cultivated in tobacco,
which produced l0,60S, 423 pounds. In 1885
the crop was increased to 2S,lOO acres, pro-
ducing 3iOOO,OO0 pounds. North Carolina
was considt red a very inferior tobacco state
in 1863. The product was mol sought after
by buyers Since that time tobacco culture
has well nigh extended over the entire state
even the Underwater region contributing a |
amount to the sum total. The /
lofty slopes of the Alleghsnies have been I
Drought into requiSitiOn for the production |
OF tobacco, ana the quality is such that 1t |
II nds ready market at high prices every
where: The impetus has been so great that /
1t has leaped the Allegheny chain of mount !
aims, and tobacco is fast becoming n sfaple
crop in East Tennessee, where ten wears ago 4
it was grown for home CONSUMPTION ONLY
The rapid growth of the industry in that t
region may be inferred from the fact that 4
the sales in Bristol of the crop of 1883 were /
only 100000 pounds, and of the crop of 1884
$4,000 pounds. 1t is now estimated that /
the crop OF 1879 Will reach 5,0OO,O00 pounds
The desire to grow tobacco has extended to I
South Carolina, and numerous experiments
In growing tobacco will be tried in various
sections OF that state the coming year. Cot
ton has been the leading crop heretofore
but the experience of North Carolina farm !
ers that tobacco is far more profitable than
cotton has induced many planters TO aban-
don cotton in part for tobacco. Alabama ia
also lnstltuting inquiries in reference to the
oesI mode OF cultlvating and curing tne
crop anu ere long We may expect To hear of
Alabama as a tobacco state With the old
TOBACCO area still producing large crops il
would seem that the business of tohacooe
growing viii, under the Influence Of GOOD
prices, be overdone. The old tobacco states.
with all their improvements for taking care
of the crop, their long ex perience and certain
markets, will always be able 10 hold their /
ground against new competitors unless the /
constitution OF the soil and the beneficent 4
effects of climate give to the latter article 4
of superior quality This has proven true 4
in the case OF Wisconsin in the growing of /
xaad leaf The product Is found superior 10 4
thai grown in Ohio, Connecticut or Penn /
Sylvania. Accordingly we ind disposi- /
zion in these latter states to contract produce i
st{272 pounds; in 1885, 100000. Ohio pro- /
duced In 1873, II, S)5,7S pounds; in ISIS, 16,- l
es30 tHO Connecticut produced over llOD1,-.
900 pounds in 1879, and lS,0O,O0Oin 1885. The I