The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-10-03

date of the first frost. IF this is we'll in
October there will be a fairly good
yield of late tobacco, but if much earlier
it will catch great deal Of tobacco in
the fields, and either injure it while |!
standing or cause the cutting of it green,
which will be as great an injury as far
as its quality is concerned. The late
tobacco is depended upon largely to
give good bodied tobacco, as the early
cut is generally pronounced as light in
body, though very colory and Of good
size.-Cineinnah Tobacco /oa'naL
Market steady and prices stiff. The
market for the weed is running more
uniformly this year than usual. So
early in the season prices generally
run irregularly, but this seems
to be an exception to the general
rule, and prices have been very
uniform and we trust they may con-
tinue so.
The cigarette trade has increased |
about 900 per cent. in the last ten or
twelve years. Just see what energy !
and push will do in a short time.
1t can no longer be said that there
is no fine tobacco in the 1889 crop.
We have some as fine tobacco in this !
as we find in any crop.-Alea Walker
| in Durham Globe.
THE 1880 BRIGHT CROP.
The 1889 North Carolina Bright
crop will probably be marketed earlier
than any for many years past. All
the markets report good sales, almost
all of it new crop, and prices are rang
ing SO high that planters are working
hard at curing in order to market as
early as possible. Cigarette manufac-
turers are ready buyers of the finer
grades, and many dealers are stocking
up rapidly, believing that later on,
when the shortness of the crop is more
apparent, prices will be much niger
Oxford, Henderson, Winston, Durham,
Greensboro, Ashevlle and other mar
kets all report high prices; and fine
bright crops, with apparently little
suitable for anything but cutters and
smokers.
In Virginig the crop is not moving
to market as rapidly as in North Caro-
lima, but prices range high in the Vir-
gina markets, too. Before January
I, 1890, very large portion Of the
Bright crop Of these two States will be
in the hands Of the dealers and manu-
facturers. The crop is now about all
in the barns, and large part of the
first cutting ured.-CIncinnah To-
baef0 Journal
A Richmond (Va.) tobacconist is
quoted in the Cincinnati Tobacco
Journal as saying this about the pres
ent crop:
From what have seen DOM think
there is one thousand pounds OF what
would be classed as a poor filler in
average years from North Carolina or
Virginia, and as to wrappers, there are
none-all are what we would class in
average years as fancy cutters and
smokers. Of course, we will be COM
PEELED to substitute the terra Gotta for
mahoganies and dapples, yet it is SO
thin it will show the binder and filler
through the wrapper. The terra Gotta
is what we call miss cure, and would
have been a fancy bright had the dry
heat been raised in time-the curer
suffering the yellowing to proceed too
far before raising the heat to fix or set
the color before it passes into the pump
kin color. Now, there is not a wra p
per of any character in the crop, and
all would have been bright with proper
management. Filters are out of the
question, land you may look for a boom
in Burly filters next year-we mean
the rich, waxy ones that are totally
lacking in the 1883 crop and very
scarce in the 1888 crop, except on the
old lands and in the Green River and
other dark sections that have raised
Burly this year.
NORTH CAROLINA'S BRIGHT LEAF.
1t is fact that cannot be disputed
that North Carolina to-day stands
without peer in the production of
the brightest grades of leaf tobacco.
i. Not only does she excel in the best
: types, but in the bulk of their produc-
ton as we'll. The census of 1880 gives
,, North Cardinals total production at
26,ooo,ooo pounds. By careful es-
innate based upon actual sales on the
various markets of the State, we esti-
! mate that North Carolina to day grows
not less than 55,ooo,ooo pounds an
nually, and practically it is all of the
, bright type, even if all of it is not
bright. Thus the State has more than
doubled her production in ten years.
The question here arises will the State
continue to increase in the production
of bright leaf during the next decade
at the same rate? We can say that
the chances are easily in favor of fully
as large per centage of increase dur
ing the next ten years as it has been
IN the past. The Eastern counties
will constitute ..the finest tobacco sec
ton OF the State to say nothing of all
that section lying between Durham
and Raleigh and the South Carolina
lima line. 1t has proven beyond con-
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