The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-09-12
6aCcO CRUMBS.
Some Notes of Interest to the Trade.

0OluC MUGS vi lutClCSI " thS eeS'
Notwithstanding the cultivation of
tobacco in Nash is of such recent date,
and that only few years ago it was
not supposed that the weed could be
produced in the county, now it has
become very important product, and
Nash tobacco has reputation in all
the markets of the State. 1t will this
year, Notwithstanding the small area
planted, bring in the county from
$4,000 to 2oo,ooo.-Nash0iIe Ar-
g0nauf.
G. S. Evans, near Greenvllle, has
twenty acres in tobocco for which he
has refused $4,000. Mr.. Evans raises
fine tobacco, having taken the premium
at Henderson year or two ago when
forty-seven counties in North Carolina
and Virginia were represented. 1t was
the Golden Leaf that took the premium.
Mr.. Evans has fine tobacco land. That
section Of Pitt is coming to the front
in tobacco. Many farmers raise it
2arb0r0 Banner.
R. R. Boone sold tobacco in Hen
derson last Friday, his best fancy leaves
selling tor sI.25 to s4.25 per POUND.
r. ]. Stallings sold at the same time
and place for $3.50 per pound and
W. S. Evans at from 81 to S. per
pound. James Frazier at s4.25 per
pound. ]. H. Jordan sold one lot, all
grades, for an average of SOFIA per
hundred. His highest price for his
fancy leaves was 5000 per hundred or
six dollars per pound.-Nashyille dr.
gOnaut.
A correspondent of the Nezos- o.
serUcr, writing about the tobacco in
terests in Wilson county, says: l
learned that Mr.. Calvin Barnes had
cultivated sixty-hve acres in tobacco
had already cured fifteen barns, for
which Mr.. Cooper offered him ST per
hundred taking it all around. Mr. H.
Rountree, one of the largest business
men IN the town, told me he would
realize more money from the five acres
he had in tobacco than from the sixty
five acres which he had in various
other crops. Going straight from Mr..
Rountree to the bank, one of the Of
ficers told me that Mr.. Robert Rem
frow had just sold four acres of to-
bacco on the hill for 5000.
WILSON TOBACCO.
The A2Uance believs the farmers OF
Wilson county have a source Of much
money in their reach in the tobacco
lands of the county. There is no soil
in North Carolina that will produce
better 2Nacco than will much of the
land IL his county, and as a Conse-
quence our people are raising the weed.
They have gone about it rsght, too
They did not neglect their other crops
for its cultivation, but they worked a
little harder and cultivateda few acres
They have, many of them, made to-
bacco that will bring them in several
hundred dollars as the result of few
acres. This is the way they should have
done. There is as little sense in rails.
ing all tobacco as there is in all cotton
We hope every farmer who can raise
few acres of tobacco will do SO next
year. The town of Wilson is destined
to be tobacco, as we'll as cotton
town. II Xs0n AaUanfe.
THE PRUNING SYSTEM AROUND HENDER.
A gentleman Just returned from a
visit to the North Carolina tobacco
markets says: 81 talked with a good
many farmers around Henderson, Ok.
ford and Durham. There seemed to be
great diversity of opinion. One far,
mer claimed to have good crops ;anoth-
er said he did not have half as good a
crop this year as he had last year
none claimed to have as much tobacco
in pounds as they had last year, Gil &C
count of the lacl, of body in the new
growth they were all very much pleas
ed with the color, and with the good
prices realized they claimed as a rea
son for marketing their tobaccos so
much earlier than usual, that they
were printing up from the stalk, pro-
cess they claimed to find much more
rapid and economical in curing. One
farmer told me he never expected to
cut any more tobacco, but intended
to adopt the printing system, as he
had saved and sold this year one hun
dred and fifty dollars worth of tobacco
that had always heretofore been thrown
away. | saw whole fields prined off
with the exception of the top leaves.
81 was told by one or two farmers
from Granville county that they had
finished curing their tobacco, which
was something that had never occurred
to them before at this season of the
year in the whole course of their lives.
Every farmer l talked with said
they had no mahogany filters at all,
and that the new growth would be de-
void Of that class of tobaccos. -
Richmond Times, 29th.