Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-02-21
TOBACCO NEWS.

Wheeler Mills IL Co., sold last week
n hhds. as follows:
10 hhds. leaf from 81 90 to IL 90.
8 hhds. Tugs from 81 70 10 6 80
hhds. common Tugs from " OOto
3 80.
Sales by lIanbcry Il Shryer, last
week of II hhds. tobacco as follows:
, 4 hhds. common Tugs from So 90 10
3 %.
5hhds. good Tugs from 50 % to
60.
8 hhds. leaf from 81 % to 10 90.
Sales by Cant & Gather Co., of 36
hhds. tobacco as follows:
hhds. new good leaf from $S %
to 10 90.
u hhds. new common leaf from
Sc 80 to Z 70.
3hhds. new Tugs from 81 90 too 30
l3 hhds. old Tugs So 90.
, Market lower on all grades of new.
GAINESVILLE, Feb. lG.-Sales by
Hancock, Fraser & Ragsdale of AZ
hhds. as follows:
s hhds. good and common old leaf
-$I4 90, IL 80, l3 so, y so, ii 90,
10 90, s so, s 90. 81
10 hhds. common and good old
lugs-S3 so TO 7 10.
10 hhds. common and good new
leaf-$7 % TO Is 90.
5 hhds., common new lugs-$3 5o
to 5 80.
1883 will probably determine what
rank Florida will take as Cigar Leaf
State. There will probably be 5000
to G00O acres of land in the State set
in Tobacco "a large part of it in Gads-
den County, this year, aud Cuban
Seed-genuino Havana-will be the
favoriie. If even a moderately fair
crop of Havana is gathered, it can be
depended upon that a revolution
will occur that will not be to the adj
vantage of either Cuba or Sumatra,
for the surrounding States will be-
come infected with the desire, and
having climate and soil much like
Florida they will 20 into the business
with a vim which may result in
making the South as famous for her
Cigar Leaf as her Leaf Keep your !
eve OH Florida West. lob. Journal. {
LOUISVILLE TOBACCO MARKET.
Sales on our market for the week
lust closed amount TO 235l Hhds
with receipts of 1889 Hhds. for the
same period. Sales on our market
since January lst amount to l43O6 q
Ilhds. Our market this week has !
been irregular aud decidedly lower
On the common grades dark tobacco.
reen River filters and their substi-
iutes both old and new have. a''"Ihe
sVnnlmed firm on new q
lark leaf of the reggie character. Dc
asional sales of new dark tobacco :
AVE been made recently at prices
materially lower than the figures
which were paid for the tobacco
DOSE in the country. The following
quotations fairly represent the mar
iet for dark tobacco:
Trash, 81 80 to-3 80.
Common to med. lugs, 50 80 to D.
Good Tugs, So 90 to & %.
Com. to med. leaf, 50 80 to 7 %.
Good to fine leaf, 81 90 too 90.
Leaf of extra length $40 90 to l6.
Good to fine Green river filler SlO
to Is 90.
We know gentlemen who last
week employed two good, expert
handlers at good, remunerative wages,
to 90 to his farm and superintend the
stripping and prizing of his crop.
Right here, let me say that we need
better CHASING, both in body and
color. Many of our best farmers are
excellent cultivators, but poor curers,
and miserable failures as handlers.
Length will cut an important figure
in this years prices, for though the
crop is of fair body, it is wanting in
length and badly mixed in color.
| More good money is made in the
: prize and stripping-rOom than at any
2 period of the crop. Bad handling
l and over-cropping robbed South
4 Christians wealthy farmers of their
e prestige, and covered the dark tobac-
co Eden of Clarksville and Hopkins
vile with the damning blight of
k written mortgage. Close farming
e watchful curing, neat handling have
IS made for Robertson county, put VI
$ in her own gravy" reputation
n worldwide. Her thrifty farmer
7, have money In sweet dreams a
y night and no headaches in the morn
y iDg.-Tob Leaf