The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-09-17
About the Tobacco Crops.

About the Tobacco Crops.
Farmers have had good weather
for curing tobacco this week. Color
is better but the quality of the leaf is
hill, fired and dropped off, while in
other instances whole plants have rot
ted. This will reduce the quantity
some of course and the lightness Of
the leaf will be another source of falling
off in the number of pounds. Much of
the tobacco so far is lacking in body
besides being bug eaten and spotted.
1t is deficient in the gummy, oily
qualities that make good tobacco and
there is no question but what the crop
will show large per cent. of monde
script stock. Certainly there will be
a great falling off of the more desirable
grades. The same discouraging reports
reach us from planters throughout this
entire section. We do not hear as
much complaint from new tobacco
districts of the Eastern part of the
State, but account for this from the
fact that many are not Judges of tobacco
who say they have fine crops. Such
of the new crop as has been sold on this
market does not bear them out in the
idea that the lower counties have been
much more fortunate than we have.
AS bearing us out we publish the
following from the Richmond Times
of Sunday:
A gentleman who left Richmond
during the past week writes from Ten
derson, n. c., under date of September
18th:
"After careful personal examina-
ton of the crop in the coutry around
Henderson l am free to say that the
condition of the crop standing in the
fields. and that which has been cured,
from all that have seen, fully justifes
what have heard in regard to the
growing crop. The tobacco, as rule,
is very small and narrow to make
wrappers, and that which has good
size after it has been cured is very thin,
and what should be wrappers are
brown, sponge-like cutters. Altogether
it is the meanest crop that has been
made, with the exception Of the frosted
crop in 1881, since have been living
here. The crop is firing up badly and
wasting away in the fields worse than
ever saw it, and such wasting is tend
ing very much to curtail the yield in
pounds
A letter from another Henderson
party says: The crop is showing up
as mean as ever you saw; no wrap
pers, and the filters seem to be burnt
and very badly BACKED. We are una
BILE to tell YOU how mean the stuff is
unless you -ould see it for yourself"
A letter from the Raleigh, n. c..
section says: II have just returned
from a trip into the eastern section and
have seen lots Of tobacco, and must
say that it is fully as bad as 1 have
written you before. The first curings
have very good color and some very
good size. but it lacks body and gum.
The late curings are all very much
diseased, with no wrappers, so you
may look for a crop from that section
something like the 80 crop, with not
so much color and more disease"
Mr.. Henry Winter, formerly manager of
the Savannah Brewery, says he had rheu-
matisn Of the heart for several years.
Often he was unable to walk over a few
blocks his pain was so intense he had
clans in Philadelphia, his former home,
but the best Professor in the university
there could not give him relief. Coming
here he saw P. P. P. advertised, tried two
hotties and is now we'll man. His pain
has left him and he can now walk all day.
He renders thanks to P. P. P, and says
its workings are wonderful. For sale by
W. W. Parker, druggist.