The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-01-08
TOBACCO EXCHANGE.


No offerings of tobaccos a. duClloh Oh
Change to-day 49, .o..ot,,r,.
of the Richmond Tobacco Trade to-day
The tobacco inspector reports to-day,
InspeSfions Bright. % hogsheads ana
tierces: dark, lIj hogsheads. Iteinspec-
tions-Bright, - hogsheads; DARK ID
SIjeghany. Southern, Davenport's, Shell
burue's Shockoc and SeabrOOkS tobacco
warehouses report to-day: Receipts, 10
packages: deliveries, Cd packages.
United States internal revenue coffee
lions for the city OF Richmond, Va. to-
dav. Cigars and cigarettes. S5.uO3i, plug
tobaccos. s2,S32 Is. Total, S7,SS2'l.
Breaks of bright loose tobaccos FOR TO-
''Stonewall." and Shelburnc's tobacco
warehouses.
The Petersburg Record of Saturday,
January =, 1879, says: - -.
bacco market until about the 10Th oil
Close of the Tobacco Year.-The tobacco
wear begins on October LIST and ends on
September Both. The following is the
report of the inspector CMr; James u.
McCuib)ch) showing the inspes IONS,
stock on hand for inspection, and sales
OF loose at the different warehouses
from October /, 1893, TO October !, 1871;
Hogsheads inspected, 4,s25; Inspected
hOgsheads on hand, l,2sj; for Inspection
80; sales of loose, lO,OOI '4~ POUNDS.
From October I, 1892, TO October |,
Hogsheads inspected, 1854; inspected
hogsheads on hand, Lbs; for inspection,
354; sales Of loose, o'5$l ,5O5 pounds.
port the Lynchburg tobacco market for
the week ending Saturday January -
1895, as follows: ~,
1894. 1915, 900; sales for week ending
January - 1890 10 100; decrease week
ending January ,, 1898, 90, 100.
Sales from October |, 1894, to January
crease for 1Sg4-'95 1.547 900.
Sales of loose tobacco were resumed
January I'd. hut owing TO the severe
weather but little has been offered. Lugs
and common grades started off at old
prices while the medium and better
grades showed a slight advance. UNTIL
we have a season our receipts Will be
Inc cincinnati ohio Tribune" of
January 3. 1895. gives the following es-
innate of the 1894 crop:
Sam II. Carr, the well-known and
doughty senior member of Carr X Dick
nson, prominent commission merchants
of Richmond Va, has kindly favored
THE Tribune" with his opinion relative
to the 1894 white hurley tobacco crop
in Kentucky. Writing to THE Tribune
under the date of December 10Th, Mr..
Carr says:
Your letter of the Odd instant to hand.
and am sorry to say, in reply, tnat
nv trip in the hurley region OF Ken
lucky was almost absolutely without
personal investigation. owing TO the bad
weather that continually confronted my
path and other incidentals that deprived
me of Information that has always been
obtainabe on previous autumnal visits
to that country. While ! cannot speak
with the certainty of the past, ! feel
that ] am almost correct IN saying the
1904 crop is as mean In quality as the
1855 crop, which was the most unsatis-
factory crop for average purposes of any
crop in my twenty years OF business.
What we call the May or snow season
setting gave every promise for high color
and quality when cut, but II seems that
the high. cool winds that followed dried
IT up, and. therefore. prevented the chemi-
cal changes so necessary In the curing
Of tobacco Of first commercial quality.
yet. with this disadvantage. the in
terror part of many barns cured fairly
well and will make at least one-third
color; two-thirds OF the first cutting viii
run a brickdust filler and n blotchy
bright There will be but fraction of
clear red in any of the May setting or
In the drought season, which consti-
tuted the last 30 per cent, planting was
struggle for existence from the first,
and only had a few weeks of favorable
life before the frost period. This last
80 per cent. of the crop was therefore
cut green when the sap was in upward
flow, and therefore cured up every color
of the rainbow. with the primary green
predominating fully 60 per cent.
'Your correspondent thinks this will
be a badly keeping crop, owing 10 its
second growth and other diseased quail
ties that followed the unnatural season
No visitors registered at the Tobacco
Exchange to-day.