The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-05-27
TOBACCO EXCHANGE.

no offerings OF tobaccos at auction on
Cnange to-day. Offerings AT auction on
'Change for the week ending to-day. la
pachases: Hignest Tor sun-cured tohaccos
for the week. $3.50
Private sales reported to the secretary
Of the Richmond Tobacco Trade to-day:
Wrappers, ~ hogsheais; filters, 2; leaf
tdariO, 8. Total. q hogsheads
Private sales reported 70 the secretary
OF the Richmond Tobacco Trade for the
week ending to-day: Wrappers, Us pack
(brightl, l: scrap DARK. 2; lear dark.
n; leaf red, 4; Tugs (dark). SS Totas.
500 hogsheads.
The tobacco inspector. reports to-day;
nspections-Bright. 20 hogsheads: dark.
l hogshead and l fierce. Reinspections-
Bright. 80 hogsheads: dark, 16 hogsheads.
And for the week ending to-day: In
spections- Bright. ~ hogsheads; dark.
lSs hogsheads and 10 terces; western. II
hogsheads. Reinspections - Bright. 335
hossheads: dark. q hogsheads and u
tierces; western, IL hogsheads.
Total sampling for the week ending
to-day: $50 hogsheads and III uerces, etc.
Myers. Davenport's, Seabrooke's, Farm
ers. Crenshaw's. Meals Planters, Allie
ghany. Old Dominion. Shelburnes and
Shockoe tobacco warehouses report to-
day: Receipts, 15S packages deliveries,
a packages.
Vaughan's. Jones. Wilson's, and Virginia
added, report for the week ending TO-
day: Receipts, s42 packages; deliveries
562 packages. - ''~
lions for the city of Richmond. Va, to-
day: Cigars and cigarettes, s134D; plug
tobaccos. 81. 49160. Total, sl.62S0
United States internal revenue collec-
the week ending to-day: Cigars and cigar
cites, S6.l3s6l; plug tobaccos, Nn.to66l.
Total, lS.796.22.
The Courler-Journal, OF Thursday, May
o. 1894, reports the Louisville. KY, to-
bacco market as follows:
The market was strong on low grades
OF bright Buriey. Other grades of bright
and an grades OF red Burley were gener-
ally firm at unchanged prices. The Of
ferings of low grades were liberal, but all
were taken UP readily.
Dark tobacco is still dull and heavy.
Reflections reported to-day on yesterday s
sales were chiefly on darks.
| A Louisville tobacco manwho has taken n
| swing through the Central Kentucky Bur-
| ley district within the past week declares
| Ills opinion that there Is more tobacco
| already set out in that region than usual
| at this time, that plants are abundant and
! the outlook for a large acreage is excel
| lent.
The sales to-day We're ISL hogsheads;
| 55S Burley. l8 dark: 62S original inspec-
ton, l23 reviews. Reflections yesterday,
And the issue OF May 18th. 1894, says:
| Inc market was without change to-day
from the prices that have ruled during
| the week. All grades OF Burley except
the lowest were active and strong. Dark
| tobacco was dun, except for long leaf,
| with plenty CT body TO II, OF which class
the offerings are limited The sales to-day
were: 6lS hogsheads; 4lS Burley. 200 dark
| 5l3 original inspection. 1915 reviews. Re-
| jections yesterday. l29
| Reports Of the statisticlan OF the United
| States Department OF Agriculture for
| May. 1894. says:
| "Virginia-rhe area Of wheat and tobac-
| co will both be reduced. owing to the
| low prices of these products Corn, oats.
| and grass will each be somewhat in
| creased in acreage this year
| North Carolina-There is n decided de-
crease in the acreage of tobacco due 10
the scarcity OF plants and the low price
at which the crop Of 1893 sold. There is a
! decrease in the acreage Of cotton on ac-
| count of low price. Because of the great
er attention now given 10 stock-raising
| corn. potatoes, and the grasses viii all
| undergo an increase in acreage.
| Kentucky-The corn crop Will be In
| creased. owing 10 the shortage OF the oat
ana tobacco crops. Nearly the entire
oat crop was destroyed by the March
! freeze"