The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1906-11-16
TOBACCO SITUATION
Weed Scarce and Ought TO Sell
For Good Prices.
Twenty Per Cent. Shortage In
Crop of the Black Patch, as
Compared With 1905.
Tciarksville Leaf ,'hronicle.l

The Government officials have
been figuring on the worlds tobacco
supply, demand. etc. They find
that the 1904 crop was 600. 900, 900
pounds. The 1905 crop was 633, 00O,0 90
pounds making the supply of these
crops nearly 40O. 200. 900 pounds short
of the supply Of the two previous
years 1902 and 1903. The Kentucky
commissioner of agriculture figures
that the crops of the Black patch of
this year 1906 is 20 per cent short
of the 1905 crop.
Tobacco is evidently scarce and
ought to sell for a good prices. ia
pan has turned her attention to the
tobacco of this country and comes
in as a new consumer. According
to reports Japan has already bought
the entire crop Of North Carolina
and this is something to figure on.
Ii is contended and argued from the
stump by every spell-binder that it
costs the farmers of this district 6
cents per pound to produce tobacco.
This must be true, as tobacco grow
ers are behind with their business,
and farm lands declining in fertility.
Already 800 mortgages have been
taken out in the county for advances
on tobacco and the prospect is that
this number Of mortgages will in
crease to 1000 before the first of
January. This and similar conditions
apparently exists in all our tobacco
growing counties. and it is evident
that the farmers are not making any
profit on tobacco or else they are
managing very badly and ought to
change their methods to diversified
farming, as we have advised. Raise
more peas, sheep. hogs and poultry.
Have farmers been receiving cost
Of production for tobacco? They
organized two years ago that they
might cooperate and concentrate
their tobacco and demand and force
higher prices.
The result has been change in
this policy; scattered markets. secret
selling, trying to force all tobacco
at all points to sell at one and the
same graded price. This policy has
served the pin-hookers and the spec
ulators well. Now, it is ascertatned
that the crop of 1904. after paying
all expenses, sale, ETC.. brought a
net average to the farmers of $3.50
per hundred. The crop Of 1905 sold
this year brought an averave to So.
The 1906 crop now in the barns.
considering the conditions of the
general market, supply and demand
should easily net the farmers an av-
erage Of $500 per hundred. selling
from six to fifteen cents.
Where there is concentration. there
will be competition on open sales.
and the competition fixes the value
of tobacco according to the supply
and demand, the farmers having no
other way OF ascertaining the value
of tobacco. 1t has always been so,
and always will be so. and farmers
can only waste their time and means
by following a will-o-the- wisp.
Farmers, by organization, standing
on high grounds and by principle,
looking to cooperation and concen-
tration forcing the market to its
highest notch by drawing competi-
ton may greatly benefit their situa-
ton. But to reach the highest
state of excellence, they must pay
attention to diversified farming reg
ulating the tobacco production. and
improving the land. These matters
should be subjects of discussion in
meeting.
The best treatment for indigestion
and troubles of the stomach is to
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by starvation or by use of good di.
gestant which will digest the food
eaten, thus taking the work off the
stomach. At the proper tempera.
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will wholly digest 5000 grains OF
food. 1t will relieve the present en-
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to satisfactorily perform its func-
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stomach, fatulence, palpitation OF
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National Pure Food and Drug Law.
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