The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-23
TOBACCO NOTES.
From New York Tobacco Leaf.

From New York Tobacco Leaf
Sumatra wrappers are, it seems, in great
demand at So and over per pound. Seven
hundred bales were disposed OF in New
York in one week lately.
The conclusion most natural is that fine
domestic leaf is badly wanted, and prices
must be in proportion to the imported leaf.
People who hold good tobacco should learn
| its true value, and sell it at its market price
| TO the consumer.
The tobacco packing houses at Balm
bridge, Ca, received about 5000 pounds OF
tobacco from Quincy one day last week,
the owners hauling it twenty-five miles in
wagons to get it to Bainbridge.
Parson: Young man, don't you ever
get tired of smoking tObacco?"
Young Man Yes sometimes"
Parson: "What do you do then?"
Young Man: "Chew It,"
Although the total reported acreage in
| tobacco shows an increase of 8 .48 per cent.
upon that OF 1879, there is decrease of 81
| in the number OF tObacco-prOducing coun-
ties, there being now only ,765 in 1879.
Why not lust let the farmers 60 right
| along and manufacture their own goods, and
thus be independent Of everybody say e
him who causes their crops to grow?
The Mayo ordering and drying machine,
| which is a marvel OF mechanical skill, will
| dry and cure complete tobacco in two
| hours and thirty minutes. The old way
| by nature was six months, and the old
steam way was from eight to ten hours.
Though the cigar and tobacco trade
cannot boast of boom, several of our
leading merchants in these lines of bus-
| ness state that the trade is in healthy
condition. Stocks of cigars are very low.
There seems to be a general under
standing among cigar manufacturers that
prices must and will be raised. Many in
and out of New York have done so al
ready.
Tobacco is produced to greater Or less
extent in forty-two states and territories,
the only non-producing states being
Idaho, Nevada, Rhode Island and
| Wyoming, and the non-producing terri
tories, Oklahoma and Utah.
| The entire crop of this country amounted
in 1889 to 488, 1856 1896 pounds, the num-
Der OF planters being 205,867, and the area
devoted to tobacco culture exclusive OF
counties cultivating less than one acre,
602, 900 acres, or 1,O82 $40 square miles.
| The area and cultivation was, however,
very unequally distributed. Kentucky
having 1862 per cent. of the total acreage,
and producing 45 A per cent. Of the entire
crop, and six states next in rank of produc
ton, so 81 per cent. of the acreage and 42.-
40 per cent. of the crop, while the twenty
states and territories having the smallest
production had less than 900 acres in to-
bacco, and yielded an aggregate of only
451 ,025 pounds, or less than One-tenth OF
per cent. ofthe entire crop.
"Raise your food supplies" is supplying
many papers columns with food in the
tobacco belt, and it's good advice, endorsed
and often given by us. The whole tobacco
section needs this constant and standing
admonition. Make home food first Of all
and then tobacco to sell secundarily.
| The new year has entered with holders
of tobacco in happy state OF mind. II
Indications prove true, they will all
make money this year, and hence the
contentment that pervades the market.
The trade is settling down to the new
order of things inaugurated by the Nc
Kinley tariff, and many wise heads now
believe that the domestic wrapper will
| 6OOu uOIU sway III OAO AAdA hCU nSG1us 0AO
these merchants are making their deals
accordingly. 1t will seem strange to see
the American wrapper crowned with the
Jewels that have for number of years
adorned Sumatra, and to see cigar man
ufacturers worshiping at the altar of
the American tobacco farmer. Ofcourse
there are respectable number who scout
the idea of Sumatra being supplanted,
but $3.50 a pound for wrappers is the
thing that is making the converts, and
the order from abroad to agents here to
raise the prices about 20 cent, and the
news that the acreage of tobacco on the
island of Sumatra will be reduced is cal
culated to make more.
We are confident that old wrappers
will advance, and that the clean, new,
sun cured crop, will sell well, that manu-
acturing filters will be in strong demand
and that cutters will keep up in price,
and that fine new wrappers will sell we'll.
-Richmond Tobacconist.
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