The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-05-15
To T0B BACCO GROWERS.
\ Plea for a Smaller Acreage for The
Present Year

(Southern Tobacco Journal)
TO the Editor: Judging from the
best information | can gather. there
Will not be altogether as much to-
hacco planted in the old districts as
there WAS last year, but the counties
which are Just beginning to raise TO
bacco will increase about enough TO
offset the decrease in other places.
thus making the acreage which Will
| be planted this year very little. II
amy. below that planted in 80.
This kind Of procedure on the part |
| Of men With ordinary intelligence, |
| in the face Of the present low prices. |
/ is simply surprising in the extreme. |
Feeling as | do. the greatest inter |
est in the farmers Of this country.
/ volunteer a few facts for their con-
| Sideration.
The tobacco crop Of 1899 in the
| bright districts of North Carolina,
South Carolina. Virginia and Tennes-
see. has averaged thus far less than Z
cents per pound on warehouse floors.
| Deduct from this fully one cent per
pound for freight. drayage and ware
/ house charges, and the farmer gets
less than sin cents net.
There is today stored in warehouses
and manufacturers hands more than
enough tobacco 10 supply the demands
Of the United States for one year.
:. Europe. which is one Of, if not the
| best. customers we have and Whlch
furnishes about all the competition
the BIG combines and corporations
have To- contend with. has stored III
her bonded Warehouses 1T this date
l.O ~.;... 600 pounds The largest num-
hcr OF pounds ever consumed IN ltu-
rope in amy one year was eighly
million. Therefore. You see that the
European markets have nearly two
and onc-half Years supply on hand.
Now. my friends. with these facts,
which can not Ec disputed. looking
yea in the face. | ask with all serious
ness What hopes have YOU for higher
prizes, fer the crop OF 1900.
Common sense answers: None
, whatever.
Can you pay debts and oct out
from undrr mortgages with six cent
tobacco. Practical knowledge along
this line enables me 10 answer thus
} oue~tion: No: most positively. No.
r With the enormous surplus ON
!. hard. | do mol believe you viii ~
: :thi. - realize over AZ. cents average
! for another crop anywhere near the
: size OF that raised IN lN99
The questions are naturally being
+. asked all over this country: What lS
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y acreage
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l. vca.. ~ WAS planted last Year. and Il
D. sure - night follows days. the in
= crcosr in price Mill be in proportion
te 10 The decrease in acreage
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YOU VIII
No man. WI" mas hfalho enough
his head to get on 81 ShoNer
y rain. Will denN 'h' iar' 'ha' Nn'
10 -, ~. - ,,l,,..o !. Greater tb,n IN
ne ally leal tohacco' : 2r'''ef 'h"n =
~ SuppiA h' 1' w
re pr"fital'l" prices f"r ms product. ~
an all agree without o'SSehS'oh on II,
h point. That beng the case why q
we not 90 10 Noik 10 prliG ap''
an that condition "i ahalfS' VIII It