Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-05-18

French Government will call for bids
on 100000 kilos Kentucky, equal TO
about 5000 hhds.
Farmers are Inow as busy as bees
in hive preparing for the planting
of crop of tobacco which is to re-
deem the past failures. Plants are
abundant and well advanced
Clarksville Democrat.
So destructive have the cutworms
become in some section of the county
that farmers are plowing up their
clover fields are planting them in
corn. Wheat is said TO be looking
very badly owing to the excessive
dry weather that we have been hav-
ing recently.-Cadiz Telephone.
Reports from Union county say
that the tobacco crop promises fair,
with an acreage contemplated con-
siderable above that of any In the
last ten years. The beds are doing
very well, and with good seasons
from this time, we will raise large
tobacco crop. Some fields of wheat
are locking fine, but in the main, the
crop is late and not good.
The Government crop report gives
the estimates of the general condi-
ton of the winter wheat at 73, against
Sc last year, and against 81 last
month. The condition is said to be
lowest in the heaviest wheat raising
States, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and
Indiana have an average condition
for the four States of only SO. The
report is even worse than predicted,
and has caused quite bulge in the
wheat market.
The Florida Tobacco Producing and
Trading Company, writes the Quincy
Herald, has under consideration one
OF the greatest schemes ever thought
of on any Tobacco plantation in this
country, and that is preparing plants
at night to be set out the next day.
The lights have already arrived for
this stupendous undertaking, and it
will not be long before our people will
have an opportunity of seeing gangs
of men working at night under the
glare of three dozen calcium lights.
The men will be divided into night
and day gangs, so those working at
night will be relieved the next morn
ing and can sleep during the day.
The tobacco bureau of Italy have
informed their government that their
necessities require purchase of IL,
900 hhds. for 1888, in addition TO the
deficiencies on their last contract,
which deficiency may range from 3,
600 to 10000 hhds, depending great
ly upon the rejections of the late con-
tractors, which will be very large,
owing TO the quantity ofchill tobaccos
mixed in with their 'S7 deliveries.
Tobacco is now being bought, and
has been for the past two weeks in
the West, at Clarksville, Hopkinsville
Paducah and Mayiield, by agents of
a we'll known New York house who
are entirely unaware that their pur-
chases are intended for the Italian
government, and paid for by their
Consul General at New York.
This purchase is not for contract,
but for account Of the Italian govern
ment, who enters the market like any
other buyer and pays just what they
are made to pay. AS the crop does
not afford enough Italian tobacco
to furnish the supply needed, this
class of tobacco viii advance frem &c.
to DC. per pound as soon as the situa-
tion is thoroughly realized. The TIA
lian government seems greatly dis
satisfied with the contractors at their
last years delay in delivering, when
tobacco was so much needed in all
their factories. They have thrown
the whole contract system overheard,
aud will in future, like Austria, buy
for his own account. We welcome
this new buyer to the Western mar.
kets, which will be worth millions to
our planters. Italy is obliged to have
the tobacco. There ia no limit to the
price. She will simply pay what she
is forced to pay at the auction board
like any other buyer. Sunday-school
class, you are on top. The harvest is
ripe for the spectators "wade in
lemmons ana get squeezed" Best of
all, the honest old farmer who has
waited until spring to prize his to-
bacco, sweet aud dry, will get good
price. There's luck in leasure."-To-
bacco Leaf.