The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-10-03
TOBACCO CRUMBS.
Some Notes of Interest to the Trade.

The tobacco crop is being rapidly
housed and will be above an average
as to color. A considerable part OF
the new crop IS being marketed and
firstrate prices are being realized
Milton Ad0erhser.
w. C. Sprinkle, who lives near
Marshall,tfin Madison county, and IS
one of the largest and most successful
tobacco growers in Western North
Carolina, was in the city yesterday,
informed us that he had already cured
seventy-five barns of splendid tobacco,
and had others yet to cure. In nearly
every instance, he said, the farmers
have had good success. He thinks
that more than thirds of the crop
in his county has been housed.-AsAe-
0iHe Tobacco Journal
TO KEEP TOBACCO FROM MOULDING.
Mr.. ]. E. M. Wright has inventd a
very valuable chemical compound to
be used in manufactured tobacco. 1t
is to prevent manufactured tobacco
from fermenting, moulding or rotting
in the different climate atmospheres to
which it is subjected. With this COM
pound of Mr.. Wr1ght's it is said to-
bacco will keep sound and sweet the
year round in any climate. We learn
that several of the largest factories in
the West want to secure the right to
use this compound.-AmAerst (Va.)
Nev Era.
The farmers are cutting and curing
tobacco at a rapid rate just now. The
majority of them, we understand, are
having splendid success in preparing
the golden weed for the market Buy
ers, as we'll as planters, are looking
forward to a good crop and to sue
cessful season. The prospect for good
prices for almost all grades, seems to
be encouraging. The tobacco bust
ness in Asheville is among the most
important to the city and Surrounding
country.-AsheUiHe 20ening Journal
The Asheville correspondent of the
Cincinnati Tobacco Journal says
The tobacco year commenced with
September Ist, instead of October Ist
as before, according to resolution of
the Leaf Tobacco Board of Trade.
The sales of leaf tobacco in the eleven
months beginning with October I, 1888,
and ending with August 81, 1880,
footed up 4,I7S,SSS pounds at an
average Of $1,000 per hundread, or a
total of s422,47o.26. The sales fo1
twelve months of the previous year
were s,9o1,o3a pounds, at an average
OF SI2.92 per hundred.
Every report from the bright belt
confirms the thinness of the leaf and
high color, with latter curing not quite
as bright as the first, which is reason
able to suppose. The crop moves
early, and may be by the time that
some get ready to buy and have made
up their minds as to values, ETC., the
crop will be found to be about half on
the market. Truly this has been an
extraordinarily forward year. The
wrapper market is strong and filters
active, with buyers from interior mar
kets already doing more than mere
prospecting here this week.-Southern
2obaceonist
A correspondent of the Wilmington
Messenger, writing from Rocky Mount,
says this of the tobacco interests of
that session: 1t is said that the to-
bacco crop for fifteen miles around
Rocky Mount this year will amount
to at least $4,000 if not 100000.
There are several farmers in this sec
ton whose crops will bring them from
$4,000 to $4,000. This section of
North Carolina is proving to be as
fine for tobacco as any in the State,
the acreage is being increased from
year to year, and as the facilities for
handling, curing, ETC., is increased the
quality is improved.
In Virginia and North Carolina the
crop is nearly all harvested, while in
the West good deal is yet in the field,
and its fate..depends largely upon the