The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-02-01
PRICES FOR TOBACCO IN
NORTH CAROLINA.
Wilmington Mc<Eengcr.)

The Messenger for years has been
anxious to obtain reliable statistics OF
fine farming in North Carolina. 1t
wished to publish actual statistics. 1t
has sought for examples of successful
farming, and the various products there
from. and the prices obtained. We rave
only row and then seen in an exchange
some report Of a fair sale of tobaccO.
But what was desired, was the average
Ter acre. the average per laborer. the
average per mule or horse. The fine
farming from 1868 to 1880. had often
been reported with the prices secured.
When North Carolina has been properly
reported and duly credited she has gen
orally lone well. The last few years
prices have been low and unSatisfac tOry
and not many farmers hay made much
money. The returns have been small,
as a general thing. when compared with
better years. We have known since
peace came for an average bale OF cot
ton to be worth 500. We have known
farmers to count 100 bales as $4,000.
How much would 100 bales bring III
these lauded and magnitied prosper
Gus" times?
reliable statistics are to be desired
actual results obtained on farms. In
the Southern Tobacco Journal there is
:" III L oI III 1NeSjlllS from 1 o.
hacco Growing" in the South. The
statistics given are certainly highly en-
couraging. and if true show that North
Carolina in tobacco growing at least
keeps not only to the front. but ahead
OF the procession as she did in 1S6S-'SO.
we do not know who furnished the
h&ureS, nor how trustworthy they are.
but as names are given. We may sup
Tcse that the statistics may be relied
upon. Che writer mentions that good
farming III tobacco especially pays and
gives an example of two Wake farmers
living side by side and growing tobacco.
On i've acres one made $3.50. the other
but $50. He says the fine tobacco is
grown in 4 wide area in the State now.
and with wonderful results. The fine
old tobacco counties no longer lead.
We propose to pick some examples of
great success out or Il great many re-
ported.
Frank Workman, of Vance, averaged
S57.25 per hundred pounds on 10000
grown on eleven acres. On four acres
ne averaged $500. That is fine. When
vas this done-lately or ten or twenty
year ago? Have such prices anywhere
Obtained within two or five years? J. NJ.
Green. of Vance, obtained S3.5O0 from
twelve acres two years ago. Henry
hart, OF Nance, paid S1.l00 for 4 farm
OF thirty-siX acres. His first tobacco
crop fetched 81, 1S3-and the time seven
months. That is splendid farming. peo-
PIE leave North Carolina where sach
things happen. We heard a farmer Of
fer to sell j. G. Cooper, Of Oxford. his
farm for $1,000. That year he and i
fourteen year old boy supported he
family and cleared $1.400 on the tobacco
2lonc-SlOO more than the farm was
). Ii. Satterwhitc, OF Vance. is worth
$3O.GOO and owns one of the best farms.
lie began some years ago as 4 day Ia
borer. u. y. Cooper, Of Vance, sold
$1,000 of tobacco from his first +
upon Il farm that cost him 1921. He
raised other crops. These are certainly
remarkable examples. What State can
) equal or beat it? In the same county
T., John Norwood paid $40 for 4 small
farm. He grew his own supplies and
sold in II year SLIGO worth Of tobacco.
Still in Vance, Ira 7. Hart leased Il
farm for 500. His crop of tobacco fo1
Iour years past has averaged S3.5OOIit
: most satisfactory investment. Such lands
sometimes did in old Granville within the
l last twenty years.
5 There are other very striking examples
!, given from other counties or sections.
We are not sure, but think the follow
ing examples are from G~ranvili y. c.,
Fleming obtained 81. $40 for Il fye-acre
crop. His brother. r. H. Fleming. Sc.
cured S1,1S1.5O for four cres-averag