Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-11-03
TALK ABOUT TOBACCO. j..
1t VIII Some Day supplan1
King Cotton In South
Carolina.

i. King Cotton In South
Carolina. g
The inside of a tobacco ware
house On salesday presents somi
Interesting as we'll 9as amusing
sights 70 the novice in the tobacco
tindustry To hear the everlasting
voice Of the: auctieneer and The
quick and snappish bids of th.
buyers induces one toscome to The
conclusion that cotton longer
king South Carolina. The buye,
eagerly seeks the article and pays
9 good price for it, i? instead of the
article seeking the buyer'and get.
ting asmall sized nothing. {
Herep2e can boast of having
the largest tobacco warehouse in
South Garoina, which fact indie.
atessthat this industry is assum-
ing sise3 in this particular section
of the State. Florence county far.
mers have wisely come to the con-
clusion that tobacco at "a cents q
pounds beats cotton at 6 cents, and
the consequence Of this conclusion
is that tobacco has almost entirely
superseded cotton. .otehr counties
should innate Florence in this par
ticulat line, and they will soon
shake OFF the "shackles of pover-
ty."
You,say you will have to hire
some Experienced man from North
Carolina or Virginia to teach you
the business. Hear what one says
who learned the business himself,
in answer TO the reporters ques-
ton ,aboutlearning the business:
aDoyou mean to say that you had
no one to instruct you in the to-
bacco:culture2"
"Wsll, sir, I used common sense,
together with information gathered
from books and papers devoted to
the culture of tobacco"
aTsn M me something about your
farm.p
There is nothing much to tell,
but what there is, you are welcome
to It'll Three years ago I commenced
to plant tsbacco, simply as an ex- (
perima I did not have much
faith .sa profitable crop in n
Sodta sfolina. At the end Of the
first year I came out so well that 1
was induced to try it on a larger
scale, and the third year finds me
planting only ten acres of cotton,
just for the sake of before the war
The first crop brought me in about
$3.50 per acre, and the second and
the third crops have netted me
about a thousand dollars for every
ten acres, or, in other words, /
clear about one hundred dollars
per acre"
"Whatpeculiaity does this soil
possess which makes it good fol-
tobacco?"
Nothing, sir. Tobacco will grow
just as well anywhere in South
Carolina. Good cotton land is
good tobacco land"
"Well, you put too much ex-
pense in building your tobacco
barn?"
"No, Sir 1 builtit with my own
hands, and at very little expense
SIN transplanting your crop. do
you have to wait for rainy
weather?"
@Nots at all. Dry weather is just
as good. The tobacco plant is al
most as hard to kill as nut grass OF
will grass. Tobacco farms are be.
coming very numerous in this
section, and we are getting better
prices here than the planters of
Virginia and North Carolina"
The question propounded by
the reporter and answered by this
planter show that the tobacco
culture is power in this section.
A buyer of Virginia says:
"South Carolina tobacco is very
fine and commands the best prices.
1t brings as high as $24 per hund-
red pounds,
The planters bring their tobacco
to the Florence warehouse, where
lis auctioned off in piles, Each
pile is of a different grade. The
Florence warehouse, one of the
largest of any tobacco State, holds
about seven hundred piles. Sales
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