The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-22
The Weed That Makes II
Best Chewing Tobacco
in the World.
GROWS ONLY In SECTIO|
AROUND RICHMON|
Practically Every Pound Mark
ed in This City, and Most Of
1t Also Manufactured
Here--Is a Source
of Excellent
Profit.
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Only within the last decade or ii
has the sun cured tobacco become ia
Gus. Just how 1T managed to get IA
Gus I am sure / do not know. exec
that it chewed we'll. The fact, ho|
ever, remains that little dark. DIM
plug of chewing tobacco; a little rus|
piece of the weed that varies in weig|
al the way from one to four ounces al
that bears all kinds of brands. eitf|
of paper or tin, has caught the FAM
of the tobacco chewer and there Al
lust thousands, maybe millions. of thu
| In the land who will not chew ar|
thing else IL they can help II.
These little ones to four ounce p1u|
of chewing tobacco are made. or SUI
posed to be made, of leaf tobacco til
lis peculiar to the soil of about four
six counties or parts of them nd
Richmond. Another popularity of Il
tobacco is the manner in which 4
growers cure it. They dry or cure 4
leaf in the sun by methods that SCI
to be known only to the farmers
Hanover. Louisa, Caroline, King al
Queen. parts of Henrico. Chesterfie|
Fluvanna. and maybe three or fo|
other counties not far from Richmol
The Hest in the World.
Whatever may be the secret thd
people have In the matter of curl
the leaf in the sun, or whether TIL
have any secret at all, the fact rema u
that the plug tobacco made from
alleged sun-cured stock coming fra
the territory 1 have named abb
strikes the taste of the chewer to|
degree, and, in the opinion of all 4
masticators of the seductive weed,
makes the best chewing tobacco in 4
whole world.
All of the stock of which the SD
cured brands are made Is cultivad
near to Richmond. and is original
marketed here. The product of Il
peculiar stock Is limited. amounting|
not much more than five MILL
pounds per year. every pound of Will
is sold in It's original state on 4
Richmond market.
Reputation Was Attractive.
For a long time the plug made frd
the sun-cured stock was manufacturt
only in Richmond, but the reputatl
of 'sun-curcd" became so great al
the chew became so popular. that ia
tories in other places in Virginia, al
out of Virginia also. commenced
come 10 this market through comm1
sion merchants and special agents
the stocx, and they too begun the maj
ufacture of so-called sun-cured brand
The demand thus became great
than the supply, and 1t was but nd
ural that manufacturers, eager to SUI
ply the demand whether or not, col
menced to put out more "sun-cure|
from the factories in one year tn
could possibly grow in the limit
territory where cultivated in sevel
ytotN n
styles of The weed with the real SUI
cured. just as sugar people sometinl
run sand through the sugar seive, e|
Hanover Grower. Idea.
A growar of the sun-cured stock
fine old gentleman from HanoJ
county, was talking the other d
with the writer about what he term
this unjust adulteration of sol
thing, and lie said: These peoA
make more sun-cured plug In the I'd
tories out of Richmond than we far|
ers on the lands about Richmond q
cannot make 1t pure sun-cured. n
they put mat name on it Just as i
little boy might make daub on|
piece of brown paper and write und
the bottom this a horse The dial
passes for a horse until Judge
fraud. ana then the horse drawl|
business suffers. In the same way d
sun cured interest gets setba|
every two or three years.
tIclmOnd Its Home.
The truth of the business is til
the only really sun-cured plug
bacco that is manufactured in 4
world goes out from the factories
Richmond, When 1t is postmarked
express marked anywhere else 1t
more or less fraud. or course,
other fellows buy here enough of
sun-cured filters and wrappers
make start, but three-fourths of 4
genuine sun-cured stock that is rails
Is bought and manufactured by 4
Richmond manufacturers. It is to th|
interest to keep the brands pure al
to keep up tho reputation of the SUI
cured chewing, and happen to KIND
when they label a box 'sun-cured'
| is sun cured. and not made of mix
stock. as is bound to be the case wi
! the fellow who is not in a positi|
| to supply himself with a sufficiency
the genuine stock"
The tobacco growers in the count
above named have made good thi|
out of their sun-ctired stocks this vel
and the 1907 crop has been ADD
three-fourths exhausted already,
eager have been the Richmond man
facturers TO secure the stock to kd
up their famous brands which hal
been getting more and more popul
every year.