The Robesonian., 1897-05-12

1853
Pennsylvania IIo.5I
New York 100. 81
West Virginia 7o.5ot
Arkansas $500
Missouri 66.34
Tennessee 81. 20
North Carolina 5o.5S
Ohio 1915 |
Illinois A4.47 |
Wisconsin 1885 |
Kentucky 42.63 |
Virginia 1912
Indiana 37.o2 |
Maryland 35.35
Turning over a trunk of old manu- |
scripts and printed articles of our own
recently we found short communication !
by us in the Raleigh Daily News, and
dated, Oxford, N. c., August 2I, 1874"
1t gives some tobacco statistics of that
great tobacco county, Granville. Some
of the statistics have been given by us
since our residence in this city beginning
in 1876 Some of the facts and figures
we have not since reproduced. To show
| what one county used to accomplish, we
| will restate some of the facts:
/ Mitchell !Currin received over $500
for his crop that was made by his two
sons, ages respectively about IS and IS,
assisted by smaller brother who was an
invalid, and who only worked about half
of the time. Seventy-dve dollars were
expended for fertilizers and $5 for extra
help. That will do. This was some
three years ago.
Dennis Til1ey sold about the same time
in Richmond, Va, nineteen tierces, re-
ceiving $S7 per 100 for the lowest, and
$I3I for the highest. Mind you, this was
for leaf Only the other day-22nd July
he obtained the prize of SIS at great
tobacco fair at Danvi1le, Va. He OBJ
tanned $Io5 per hundred pounds. Out of
twelve prizes offered, eleven were taken
by North Caro1inians, and that i'll Vir-
ginian market We believe Mr.. Tilley
was the only one from Granville who
competed and the result is as above given.
J Joseph Adcock sold eighteen tierces
the other day, averaging 500
Jas. B. Hobgood, father of President
Hobgood, of Raleigh, averaged S54 fol
his crop.
On July 28th, seven tierces sold al
Henderson for $I4.75, $32.5o SIS, $42. so
5 SIS, 1863, $S3. so. These prices are not al
all unusual
But let us give the precise figures of {
farmer living four miles from Oxford ant
not in the richest tobacco section of tn.
s county. Mr. B. F. Hester is an alunlnu
9 of Wake Forest college. He gives tn,
n following:
Here are the figures for 1873: Mum
Der of acres planted, 10; cost of fertilizer
Y per acre, IS; amount received for crop
: per acre, $3.50; total crop for ten acres
i 81, 500; hands worked, 2 men and boys
# estimating the force at 3 men, his averag
per hand was $500. Mr.. Hester raise
his corn fodder, wheat, OATS and bacon
The above is about the average of hi
y cropping for the last four years.
le There were scores of farmers who pro1
t. ably equa1ed Mr.. Hester in prices, an
= some like Tilley, the Peeds, Washington
Da1by, Rev. B. f. Hester (another MA
of the same nancy and some others ave
aged even more than Mr.. H did. W
l. wrote to the News:
q II am sure that there are ten men
,f Granville county who average 81, 200 |
every ha.sd they work, for tobacco alon
10 besides making everything they consun
G. in the way of cereals, meat, ETC."
Il That was twenty-three years aud mo
ne ago. Prices range low now The dead
blight of the rapacious trust rests upe
the growers of fine tobaccos. The vail
20 of an acre in tobacco in North Caroli1
n has indeed fallen when it is but $50. :
lis And yet at cents pound for colt,
ed there is more money in tobacco per ac
- at present low prices But mark, it
impossible to cultivate as many acres
'io tobacco as i'll cotton. Mr. Hester work
IT. three men and cultivated in tobacco b
as ten acres, making other things also. N
Dicken, in Edgecombe, III 1870,
- twenty-one acres made himself twent
, one bales of cotton. He received S2 !
ne for this crop. The Jacksonville Tim
les Union considering the highest averae
:. of tobacco says:
IL The higher value per acre of the
let bacco crop of Connecticut is due to
T. fact that the growers in that State
IL understand the business, while in Flor
no maTy of them are without experien
=, 1t is also probable that as Connecticut
lie TWENTY-FIVE times as thick1y settled
* Florida, land is more valuable and bet
cultivated. Intensive farming is the r,
To- there i'll all crops. There are ONLY abe
on three acres of land in the State to ca
inhabitant, and the people are compel
re- to cultivate well instead of cultivati
much.
The same conditions prevail in NJ
sachusetts, and to somewhat less ext
w. i'll Pennsylvania and New York"
One man i'll Granville, about 1876
vas 1877, name forgotten, but the facts W
in published in the Oxford Torchlight, 1rls
himself a crop of tobacco he sold
vas $I,7oo. The North Carolina farm
hs should learn that IN growing either
bacco or cotton only rich lands and
ty- tensive cultivation will make large a,
Ind ages and secure the highest prices.
North Carolina raises more toba
ars than any State except Kentucky. 1t
ap- in 1896; 1856 acres (by guess no dou
and produced 6S, ,62e, ITO pounds, yal
ars at $500 334. The aveeage price w;
,wn cents pound. Kentucky had more
bacco, but the average was AZ cen
pound.